21 Quotes by Mark Kingwell

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

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

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

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

Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves.

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.

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

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

Anywhere – and, it follows, nowhere – can be a place. As long as we are there, to think and talk, to listen and respond. The world, once conscious of itself in the form of human making, is a vast concert hall. What sounds there is not the divine music of celestial spheres, as the ancient Greek mathematicians believed, but the sound of one human after another issuing the daily plea: to be heard, to be understood, to be accommodated.