Mark Kingwell Quotes

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

Mark Kingwell

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

Mark Kingwell

#3. Stefan shook his head. Th' lad's got guts , he thought. Not much sense, but guts.

Tamora Pierce

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

Mark Kingwell

#5. 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.

Mark Kingwell

#6. The Chinese began with the assumption that the group is the fundamental unit of reality. Individuals? Sure, we can factor them out from their groups, but let us not think that they as individuals have any viability apart from their group.

Huston Smith

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

Mark Kingwell

#8. Mama was amazing like that; I spent most of my teenage years assuming that she knew nothing about me, and all of my twenties realizing that she knew everything.

Eva Rice

#9. I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do better there than at a large university like Harvard.

Joseph Stiglitz

#10. 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.

Mark Kingwell

#11. War is smaller in scale than in recent memory, but it is far more ambiguous, intractable, and nasty. Money flows more quickly than ever, but it is still somehow manages to gather and puddle in certain places, for certain people rather then others.

Mark Kingwell

#12. 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.

Mark Kingwell

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

Mark Kingwell

#14. America was founded on prayer. Therefore, the removal of prayer from its public life was a central part of its fall from God. A nation that turns away from prayer will ultimately find itself in desperate need of it.

Jonathan Cahn

#15. 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.

Mark Kingwell

#16. Don't be such a dumbass, Gabe. Koalas don't travel in herds. They move in heaps. Much like emus move in ripples, and kangaroos travel in photo-ops.

Elle Lothlorien

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

Mark Kingwell

#18. Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves.

Mark Kingwell

#19. Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order upon the endless, and endlessly frustrating, nature of thought.

Mark Kingwell

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

Mark Kingwell

#21. I'm accepted by God, not on the basis of my personal performance, but on the basis of the infinitely perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ.

Jerry Bridges

#22. President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage.

Bill Shuster

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

Mark Kingwell

#24. I play a slave. How black is that? I have to wear chains. How whack is that? But don't worry. I get free. I save my wife and I kill all the white people in the movie. How great is that?

Jamie Foxx

#25. Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to do, and hence no single aspect of the to-do worth doing ... Underneath this rather antic form of action-as-inaction is the much more unsettling question whether anything is worth doing at all.

Mark Kingwell

#26. No matter how many good deeds we preform, they aren't the ticket to earning God's favor. God graces us in spite of what we do in this life, not because of.

Bill Courtney

#27. She would do whatever she had to, even make this man's life a living hell if it were required, and judging by the arrogance of Thomas Glanville, that possibility was quite likely.

Tamara Hughes

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

Mark Kingwell

#29. We are capitalism made flesh.

Mark Kingwell

#30. Concrete is momentarily unformed matter seeking its natural completion, filling in the last corners of its allowed space, finding a form. It is possibility rendered material, hope in an industrial-strength mixer.

Mark Kingwell

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

Mark Kingwell

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

Mark Kingwell