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Top 20 Mark Kingwell Quotes (2025 Update)

Mark Kingwell Quote: “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.”

1. “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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Mark Kingwell Quote: “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.”

2. “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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Mark Kingwell Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

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Mark Kingwell Quote: “Friendship requires a leap, not of faith but of regard.”

4. “Friendship requires a leap, not of faith but of regard.”

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Mark Kingwell Quote: “Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.”

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

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Mark Kingwell Quote: “Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves.”

6. “Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves.”

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Mark Kingwell Quote: “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.”

7. “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

Mark Kingwell Quote: “I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.”

8. “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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Mark Kingwell Quote: “How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us?”

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

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Mark Kingwell Quote: “Dreams are evidence that we are creatures who produce more meaning than we can ourselves understand.”

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

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Mark Kingwell Quote: “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.”

11. “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

Mark Kingwell Quote: “We are capitalism made flesh.”

12. “We are capitalism made flesh.”

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Mark Kingwell Quote: “Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long.”

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

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Mark Kingwell Quote: “For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created.”

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

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Mark Kingwell Quote: “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.”

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

Mark Kingwell Quote: “Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance.”

16. “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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Mark Kingwell Quote: “If anyone is tweeting right now, I’m not pulling a knife on David Cronenberg!”

17. “If anyone is tweeting right now, I’m not pulling a knife on David Cronenberg!”

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Mark Kingwell Quote: “Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose.”

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

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Mark Kingwell Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

— Mark Kingwell

Mark Kingwell Quote: “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.”

20. “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

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