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Quotes from The World We Want — Mark Kingwell

born 1963 Canada

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It wasn't atheism and corruption they feared, but inquiry.

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

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

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

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Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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We are capitalism made flesh.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mark Kingwell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.