Cynicism Quotes

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

The art of giving is perfected through anonymity.

The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism.

The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.

Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.

We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

I need a healthy injection of cynicism right now.

America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.

It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.

Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

Cynicism is intelectual dandyism, but graciousness in speech is an aphrodisiac. (Andy Spade)

The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism.

among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all

A person is as young as their dreams and as old as their cynicism.

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

They were fast-moving opportunists encased in cynicism and proud of it.

Cynics always say no. Saying yes leads to knowledge. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes.

We have to use our discontentment to engage rather than disengage - our hope has to be more powerful than our cynicism.

Cynicism is intellectual treason.

[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.

Cynicism is the last refuge of those who don't want to do the work of creating a better society.

Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.

I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.

I never know how much of what I say is true.

Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.

Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.

Life is serious but art is fun!

Cynicism has its own zealots.

The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

You see, in this world there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.

Cynicism is the humor of hatred.

It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism.

It is cynicism, and not idealism, that is generally the mark of youthful immaturity, or rather it is the cynic who is generally the most foolish romantic.

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.

Cynicism is carnality that thinks its smart.