Quotes About Cynicism

Habría sido capaz de ver en su regreso algo distinto del oportunismo. Pero ni siquiera me permitió esa mentira.

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He didn't like very many people any more, or very many things either. He preferred not to be this way, but there it was, he was like that. His cynicism, a veteran's cynicism, was a thing that disturbed him all the time.

Numbness and cynicism, I suspect, are more often the products of frustrated compassion than of evil intentions.

It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

There comes a point in every man's life when he sees that the magician's hat is empty, that the government and the church are run by fools, and that virtue is far rarer than he'd been led to believe.

Let's face it - with a few exceptions, nobody likes anybody.

Oh, God, the lovebirds," Magnus said, pulling the pillow off his face. "I hate happy couples.

Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.

...and you don't even have to sleep alone, you don't even have to sleep at all; and so, all you have to do is show the stick to the dog now and then and say, 'Thank God for nothing.'

God save me from idealists.

WTF is praying gonna do for Vegas? Apparently God likes mass shootings.

That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.

When something looks too good to be true, it usually is.

I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of people... that's why I don't like any of them.

The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.

Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.

Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could be convinced of that. But there are good people.

It's important to not be naive about this world and know that it's not necessarily a good place to be.

My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me.

Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.

If experience has taught me anything, its not to put ANYTHING past people in government.

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.

I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.