Quotes About Cynicism

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

People were, as he had long suspected, uniformly vile and rotten, vastly inferior to things. Objects never let you down.

Once you realize how flawed, corrupt, worthless, and evil people are, their lies won't bother you as much anymore.

She would put her "naïve American optimism" toward making herself indispensable to him, and she'd win him. Because naïve American optimism beat out English cynicism any day.

Recimo samo da sam s godinama razvila cini?an stav prema sposobnosti muškaraca da promijene svoje navike.

If you are innately skeptical of other people's motives, then no amount of good behavior in the past will ever truly convince you that they are not just about to disappoint you. Suspicion is a permanent condition.

Stupid, stupid, stupid: I'd believed all that claptrap about life, liberty, democracy, and the rights of the individual I'd soaked up at law school. These were eternal verities and we would always defend them. I'd depended on that, as if on a magic charm.

He can't shake the feeling that this place is some sort of pyramid scheme, and that those who fail to understand that will be left empty-handed. But there's no obvious reason for this feeling of his. Maybe he's ungrateful by nature.

But Molly didn't hate men. With men, Molly was a toad-kisser. she thought any toad could be turned into a prince if he was only kissed enough, by her. I was different. I knew a toad was a toad and would remain so. The thing was to find the most congenial among the toads and learn to appreciate their finer points. You had to develop an eye for warts. I called this compromise. Molly called it cynicism

To hear them talk one would have thought they had no legs, natural functions or knowledge of the wicked world.

When Scarlett was seeing Rhett to the door, she asked indignantly: "If it were you, wouldn't you enlist with the Yankees to keep from dying in that place and then desert?" "Of course," said Rhett, his teeth showing beneath his mustache. "Then why didn't Ashley do it?" "He's a gentleman," said Rhett, and Scarlett wondered how it was possible to convey such cynicism and contempt in that one honorable word.

A thankful heart cannot be cynical.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

Men are a hundred times worse than you can imagine. We are thinking the worst, shallowest thoughts, all the time.

You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.

sick of mankind and their disgusting ways...

Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.

He sneered with the impatience of people listening to the obvious lies of others.

They reflect the age in cynicism which cannot comprehend the death of possibilities, fatuous sophisticated indulgence in the parody of the miraculous, decadence whose last refuge is self-ridicule, a mannered helplessness. You saw them; you've known them all your life. You reflect your age differently. You reflect its broken heart.

Don't listen to the cynics. They're cynics for a reason. For them, the resistance won a long time ago. When the resistance tells you not to listen to something, read something, or attend something, go. Do it. It's not an accident that successful people read more books. Symptoms

The effect of persistent, pervasive corporate misconduct is to promote public distrust of power-holders in general. From Superpower's vantage point public cynicism, far from being deplorable, is one more element contributing to political demoralization and languor.

Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

Syn has a brain disorder that causes him to lie most of the time. Ignore him. (Nykyrian)