Quotes About Cynicism

A lot of lip service gets paid to being honest, but no one really wants to hear it unless what's being said is the party line.

Vote for the man who promises least he'll be the least disappointing.

Politics should make a thief, a roué, and a pessimist of anyone but I don't believe I am any of them...

I used to be sceptic, but not anymore, because now I am positive that I'm getting screwed.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

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

In rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism.

The temerity to believe in nothing.

All seems infected that the infected spy as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as affectively as by bombs.

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...

Politics is applesauce.

The cynics are correct the sense of freewill is only that feeling which we have when we take the necessitated option that most appeals to us.

Creative nihilism, aggressive pity, total misanthropy.

Och Karel, eigenlijk ben je zo goed. Soms wil je alleen het slechtste, het allerslechtste in de mensen zien, maar je meent het niet. Altijd beweer je dat liefde maar onzin is, dat haat en eigenbelang de enige dingen zijn die tussen de mensen blijven op den duur. Eigenlijk houd je veel te veel van mij.

Al die beurzen, prijzen en stipendia,' zei hij, 'ben je werkelijk zo naïef te denken dat die bij begaafde studenten terechtkomen? Trouwens, wat is een begaafde student? Een begaafde kontenlikker, als je het mij vraagt.

If, despite not having pursued wealth, we find ourselves wealthy, we should enjoy our affluence; it was the Cynics, not the Stoics, who advocated asceticism. But although we should enjoy wealth, we should not cling to it; indeed, even as we enjoy it, we should contemplate its loss. •

Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.

Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.

The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice

Politics makes me sick.

Men are shits." "All men?" "Maybe I'm being too harsh. There might be a nice guy in Toledo. I'm just talking about the ones I sleep with.

Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were hypocritical, Gore is shallow and weak, Bradley is an idealist, Bush Jr. a fool, and all of the independent candidates act like they're on drugs.

I wanted to find a reason not to be cynical—to have some faith even when nothing around me seemed to justify it.