Cynicism Quotes
Cynicism Quote of the day
In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.
Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.
We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.
Scientists have discovered that the small, brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy.
Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on.
I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.
Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse
The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.
HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Receptivity is a superpower.
I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's an active disengagement.
Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit.
When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it either. I just want to expose certain truths.
You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to.
Cynicism is the largest obstacle to social change. Cynicism is dangerous because people throw up their hands and say, "Well it's not possible. Why should I even try?"
Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.
Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void.
As the nation at last confronts global warming, it is no time for denial, greed, cynicism or pessimism.
When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old.
The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.
There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.
Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience.
Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time someone said, "No you can't.
There's something I believe wholeheartedly: Cynicism is the true refuge of the pseudo-intellectual, .. Cynicism is easy. Joy is an extremely advanced spiritual and intellectual tenet.
The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.
Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.
Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.
There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining about the church it sees and becomes the church it dreams of.