Citizens Quote by 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 false order…

— 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 quality: moral…

— Mark Kingwell

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