Quotes About Pessimists

The world is full of dead optimists.

There are croakers in every country, always boding its ruin.

Dictatorships always immediately ban short selling, since it is axiomatic with them that no professional pessimists are going to be tolerated.

No matter what people say, life is marvelous, if you want to know who gets mu goats, it's those killjoy pessimists, even if I have plenty to complain about, you don't hear a peep out of me, what for. I ask you, what for, when life can bring me a day like today; oh, how marvelous it all is: a strange town, and me here with you...

Without wanting to decide the question of the nature of man one may say in general that as long as man is well off or willing to put up with things, he prefers the illusion of an undisturbed calm and does not endure pessimists. The political adversaries of a clear political theory will, therefore, easily refute political phenomena and truths in the name of some autonomous discipline as amoral, uneconomical, unscientific and above all else declare this- a devilry worthy of being combated.

at any given time there are more cannibals than philosophical pessimists.

To the regret of pessimists, our primitive ancestors could not see that theirs was not a time in which to produce children.