Quotes About Cynicism

Como todos os sacerdotes, vocês logo aprenderam a chamar a verdade de heresia. Cinismo! Sem dúvida alguma, deve ser um crime pior que a heresia.

El mundo es perverso y todavía encima se le ayuda

It's hard to get fluffed up about love anymore. I've lived it. I try to avoid it. If I'm extremely fond of a woman, if I think I might really wind up walking down the aisle again... I go in another direction.

On 'Best Week Ever,' I met a few previous 'Idol' winners, and they were the nicest young people you'd ever want to meet. It is a tribute to them that they emerged from 'Idol's' cynicism factory seemingly without mercury poisoning of the soul.

There's no pleasing the British, or winning their favor. They simply hate politicians. All politicians. Hatred goes with politicians like mint sauce with lamb. It's as old as Parliaments.

When I rather guiltily read the books on which the TV series 'Game Of Thrones' is based, I was struck by one thing. The whole point of this saga is that ruthlessness pays, that evil generally wins, that justice is non-existent, and utter cynicism the only wisdom. It is the Middle Ages without the saving grace of Christianity.

All anyone needs to enjoy the state legislature is a strong stomach and a complete insensitivity to the needs of the people. As long as you don't think about what that peculiar body should be doing and what it actually is doing to the quality of life in Texas, then it's all marvelous fun.

The first thing I've learned is to trust nobody.

Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.

I don't like false happy endings, and I don't think the real world is such a forgiving place.

A something-for-nothing culture does no one any favours. It makes those who are doing the right thing cynical.

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows Leonard Cohen Everybody Knows

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

Take away religion, take away philosophy, take away the higher aims of art, and you deprive ordinary people of the ways in which they can represent their apartness. Human nature, once something to live up to, becomes something to live down to instead. Biological reductionism nurtures this 'living down', which is why people so readily fall for it. It makes cynicism respectable and degeneracy chic. It abolishes our kind, and with it our kindness.

Seiner Funktion nach darf der Abgeordnete kein Zyniker sein, schließt doch Zynismus die Zustimmung zur Zerstörung ein und enthält so eine Absage an den Humanismus, dem sich das Parlament verdankt und den es immer wieder auf den neuesten Stand bringen sollte.

Now, at a point when the entire world seems mired in violence and cynicism, when the Church is shrinking, the environment being poisoned, when good souls are giving up hope, when greed and bitterness seem to be gaining at the expense of kindness and compassion - now, I believe, we have been given a divine help.

Hundert gute Gründe, mich auf der Stelle umzubringen 1. Die beste Art, um sicherzugehen, dass ich nicht schon tot bin. 2. Die letzte Volkszählung wird dann nicht mehr stimmen. 3. Unter der Erde wartet man nur noch auf mich, um mit dem Feiern anzufangen. (...)

misanthropy, hatred of mankind, is the order of the day.

The word 'love' is a fucked up word that's been used and abused so much it no longer means shit. The same thing is true about 'beauty.' 'Beauty' doesn't mean anything anymore. Idots use the word, and look at what they use it for. Nothing! Anything! If you ever become educated, and I doubt if that will ever happen, you will have to understand that most of what you will learn is going to be just a lot of shit.

only a complete alcoholic can think life is funny ... any life! ...

Ce monde n' est je vous l'assure qu'une immense entreprise à se foutre du monde!

If you've lived this long, it's because you've squashed any poetry you had in you.

When the grave lies open before us, let's not try to be witty, but on the other hand, let's not forget, but make it our business to record the worst of the human viciousness we've seen without changing one word.