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

— Mark Kingwell The World We Want (2000)

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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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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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