Cynicism Quotes

Faith builds, cynicism destroys.

Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality.

I think moral outrage is born not of anger but of love. It comes from the highest in us, not from a low-level sense of anger or cynicism.

I think that every moment you succumb to cynicism, you're taking energy away from change.

You know, the cynicism that is in the politics, it is not for my soul. It makes me - out of me, an extremely bitter, cynical person that I hate to see in the mirror, really.

Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.

The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.

I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually the opposite of a cynic.

Cynicism can be funny. But it's the easy way. You'll forget to enjoy anything. I try to make the evolving choice, the forward-moving, life-giving choice. Just keep living, man.

Cynicism is a form of cowardice, a failure of courage to hope.

You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.

Cynicism has all the smart words on it's side; idealism uses a nursery school dictionary.

I hate cynicism. I wipe it from me. I don't like cynical people. I don't like cynical movies. Cynicism is very easy. You don't have to justify it. You don't have to fight for it.

I think cynicism often disguises itself as humour.

I think if you see that no one is going to laugh at you for it, I think the concept of living nicely will be infectious. I believe there is room for the absence of cynicism.

We must renew democracy itself. We have to fight cynicism and inertia and restore faith in the advancement of our country.

There are realities that one needs to deal with, but very often what we are told is political reality is merely cynicism. One could equally say that slavery is a reality, and misogyny too.

Cynicism was a school in Greece - the Cynics. Diogenes is a famous Cynic. There was a strong belief in nihilism and narcissism. Those are old schools too.

Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and join the battle.

Never surrender to cynicism, even if you suspect it would get the critics on your side.Never surrender to cynicism, even if you suspect it would get the critics on your side.

The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.

Giving full rein to one's cynicism as one goes along produces a normal outlet and maintains an emotional equilibrium.

I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.

I think that cynicism can often be mistaken for wisdom.

There's a fine line between participation and mockery.

Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the imperial forces of cynicism and irony. I am a sentimental soldier.

I have a healthy cynicism, but not anger.

Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics.

I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.

They tugged plans and ambitions out their as*es and held tight to the first that didn't smell so strongly of shit.

Jonathan had been around Washington long enough to know that no offer was exactly what it seemed.

I do not snivel that snivel the world over, That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth, That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.

Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.

A cynic is a man who when he smells flowers looks around for a coffin.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

On the brink of sleep I have a gloomy thought: that saving yourself is only pushing yourself even deeper into the trap rather than getting out. Dying is the only way out.

By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing.And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying.Lady make note of this --One of you is lying.

You're such a cynic, " Molly said."I think cynics are playful and cute.

I am a citizen of the world.

...God created the world in six days. On the seventh day, he rested. On the eighth day, he started getting complaints. And it hasn't stopped since.

Cynicism is when a small mind and a hurt heart rejects the hope, love, and truth of a big and caring God.

Cynicism places the cynic at the center seat of judgement with the self appointed authority to criticize and condemn.

…a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed...

Some people grow older and more cynical. Some people become just the opposite. Life hurts without hope, and cynicism, once a luxury, becomes unaffordable.

Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.

Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out.

They say the distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success, I believe you can say the same thing about the distance between good and evil.

It seems all spirits need theatrics, eh? Even Christ himself requires incense and holy water. We're a skeptical people. We need convincing.

In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success