Mark Kingwell

Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.

— Mark Kingwell

How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us?

— Mark Kingwell

For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created.

— Mark Kingwell

Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance.

— Mark Kingwell

If anyone is tweeting right now, I'm not pulling a knife on David Cronenberg!

— Mark Kingwell

Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves.

— Mark Kingwell

Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.

— Mark Kingwell

Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long.

— Mark Kingwell

Friendship requires a leap, not of faith but of regard.

— Mark Kingwell

Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain…

— Mark Kingwell

Neiman's book is written with considerable flair, as many critics have already noted, but it possesses a far rarer and more valuable…

— Mark Kingwell

If you have ever been accused of being rude when you were merely stating the truth, or called a gossip because you…

— Mark Kingwell

Politics is rather the creation of the best possible polity out of the deep inner needs of its citizenry - who are…

— Mark Kingwell

I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.

— Mark Kingwell

We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because…

— Mark Kingwell

We are capitalism made flesh.

— Mark Kingwell

Concrete is momentarily unformed matter seeking its natural completion, filling in the last corners of its allowed space, finding a form. It…

— Mark Kingwell

All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing…

— Mark Kingwell

War is smaller in scale than in recent memory, but it is far more ambiguous, intractable, and nasty. Money flows more quickly…

— Mark Kingwell

Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to do, and hence no single aspect of the to-do…

— Mark Kingwell

We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted…

— Mark Kingwell

Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose.

— Mark Kingwell

Dreams are evidence that we are creatures who produce more meaning than we can ourselves understand.

— Mark Kingwell