Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order upon the endless, and endlessly frustrating, nature of thought. — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought. — Mark Kingwell Copy Share
How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us? — Mark Kingwell Copy Share
For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created. — Mark Kingwell Copy Share
Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance. — Mark Kingwell Copy Share
If anyone is tweeting right now, I'm not pulling a knife on David Cronenberg! — Mark Kingwell Copy Share
Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all. — Mark Kingwell Copy Share
Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long. — Mark Kingwell Copy Share
Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share
Neiman's book is written with considerable flair, as many critics have already noted, but it possesses a far rarer and more valuable quality: moral… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share
If you have ever been accused of being rude when you were merely stating the truth, or called a gossip because you like to… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share
Politics is rather the creation of the best possible polity out of the deep inner needs of its citizenry - who are only some… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share
I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens. — Mark Kingwell Copy Share
We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because it is… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share
