Quotes About Cynicism

I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.

What I'm trying to do is deliver results, not promises; results, not vision; results, not concepts. The world is cynical about IBM's promises.

When you're young, you believe in the most basic things. You believe that there are good people around you. And you don't just take things for granted, like the ocean or the sky, or even being able to dream, to have a vision, to have ambition. As you grow up, all that gets knocked out of you.

This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.

Há, portanto, uma causa para a transposição imaginária das condições de existência reais; essa causa é a existência de um pequeno grupo de homens cínicos que assentam sua dominação e sua exploração do "povo" sobre uma representação falseada do mundo, imaginada por eles para subjugar os espíritos pela dominação de sua imaginação.

If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it.

Why not admit that other people are always Organic to the self, that a monologue Is the death of language and that a single lion Is less himself, or alive, than a dog and another dog? With vision but it is vision builds the eye; And in a sense the children kill their parents But do the parents die? And the beloved destroys like fire or water But water sculpts and fire refines And if you are going to read the testaments of cynics You must read between the lines.

VERY FEW PEOPLE really understand the difficulties of accepting Christianity. The picture painted by the well-meaning is that after a conversion God gives the new believer a steady diet of happiness and all is immediately well. Nothing of the sort is true. On the contrary, like every other sincere person who is striving to believe in spite of having so long lived another way with a mind conditioned to cynicism, I had to go through a period of despondency, doubt, and painful self-examination.

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

the fact that nothing you do seems innocent anymore

It is impossible to believe anything in a world that has ceased to regard man as man, that repeatedly proves that one is no longer a man.

So, I begin each day with a gesture of cynicism, and close it with a gesture of faith; or, if you prefer, begin it by reminding myself that, for me at least, goals and objectives are without value, and close it by demonstrating that the fact is irrelevant. A gesture of temporality, a gesture of eternity. It is in the tension between these two gestures that I have lived my adult life.

If there's one thing I've learned in more than seven decades of life, it's that the world is a completely fucked-up place. You never know what's around the corner and it's often something unpleasant.

Valentines Day isn't a real holiday it's just for commercial purposes...coming from me who is single.

Don't fall in love. Fall off a bridge, it hurts less.

One bad relationship can make you never want to fall in love again!

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

I may love to shop, but I'm not buying your bullsh...

Once you've been through the same sh.. over and over again, you don't get your hopes up anymore. You already know what you're gonna expect.

People can act so nice, bringing you food and all, but in the end they are nothing but buzzards. Waiting to pick your bones.

As consumers we are incredibly discerning, we sense where has been great care in the design, and when there is cynicism and greed.

The desire to believe the best of people is a prerequisite for intercourse with strangers; suspicion is reserved for friends.

Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.