Quotes About Cynicism

As long as you use the same adolescent cynicism and use the same fighting techniques, the readers and the audience don't give a damn whether your words have substance or not. They simply want you to win because you're their fighter in the cage, and that's it.

From the day I met you, I've known that you are a glass-half-empty-and-maybe-poisonous guy.

The savagery of a young cynic never rests

The world has enabled so many bullshitters. It's exhausting.

Like many hard-bitten cynics, he cried easily and was always falling into fluttery love with his type, clean-cut Yalies.

Si no fueran unos sanguinarios hijos de puta, serían para cagarse de la risa.

Cynicism is a cheap emotion, a craven substitute for thought and action.

Politics when I am in it, makes me sick.

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

I said in my haste, All men are liars.

Life is full of FAKE PEOPLE, trust No One.

Assume the worst. About everybody. But don't let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back. Ignore it. Be amused by what you see and suspect. Just because someone you work with is a miserable, treacherous, self-serving, capricious and corrupt asshole shouldn't prevent you from enjoying their company, working with them or finding them entertaining.

History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past.

I don't believe in psychology.

Part of me wants a bunch of jocks to go to Comic-Con and call them all dweebs so they can be like, 'Pump the brakes a little bit.' But that said, it's all positive. It's just, of course, I'm going to find some cynicism in it.

The pure unadulterated disgust of Washington seems to me to be a really good thing.

I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it.

I went to an extreme for literary purposes because I felt all the self-help books out there were so gooey and Pollyanna-ish and nauseating. It was making me angry.

I really like watching myself a lot because it gives me an opportunity to see it from outside the flesh, and when I view it like that, I can be a lot more cynical and see the things that need to be attacked.

I know a lot of Eastern Europeans, and because of what they have been through and what they have seen, they have an attitude where they are not easily fooled.

You see in such a world as this, an idealist — or perhaps it's only a sentimentalist — must be stoned to death.

Leaving the group, he reclined on a couch, drank morosely, and watched people. He noticed the games they played with one another. They put on masks of civility, all while spewing their venom.

People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless.

Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy.