Top 15 Mark Kingwell Quotes

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.

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

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

We are capitalism made flesh.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves.