Mark Kingwell Quotes

Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves.

We are capitalism made flesh.

It is only through a devoted attention to the details of objects and faces in the modern urban scene, he argues, that the commodity fetish of capitalism can be effectively dispelled.

But what I mean is not as odd as it might sound - and is by no means intended as the last word on the subject, only the first.

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

All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for liberation and justices.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 an alien force to which we have to submit.

Politics is rather the creation of the best possible polity out of the deep inner needs of its citizenry - who are only some of its members.

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