Mark Kingwell Quotes
We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted in ancient problems of civic belonging.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long.
