Quotes About Cynicism

People, by and large, weren't cruel, weren't heartless; it was simply that they couldn't believe anything could happen

Somehow when you see a politician kiss a baby, shake a hand -- kiss anything -- it is tainted.

You ever hear somebody blithely say something so amazingly plastered over with bullshit it just makes your eyes bug?

Kit bit his cheek on tired laughter, all his irritation draining away. Perhaps I've just been used too much to care any more, he thought.

As far as Benedick was concerned, cynicism was a toy for children.

We're fucked," Seeker confirmed. "Welcome to fairytales. Have a nice day. Canapé?

The more I see of the world, the less inclined I am to think well of it.

All of her news was bad and so her talk was punctuated with "of course" and "naturally.

Some people realize that what must burn in the fire is their fear—fear of their own power, fear of change, fear of loss, fear of others. Some people name an inability to feel, a crippling cynicism, a sense of shame, a stance of anger. I

Too bad, how sad, life's a bitch and then you die.

When pundits and strategists claim "attack ads work," they mean it in the most cynical of terms. As Ipsos Reid researcher Andrew Grenville told the Vancouver Sun: "Attacks ads can often work in the short term. They can give you a short boost. But they reduce the number of people who want to vote. They reduce participation in the democratic process. They poison the system.

How come you like Josh so much anyway? All he does is sit around drinking overpriced coffee and bitching about how awful things are" "He cares about the world." "If he cared about the world, he'd donate the ten thousand dollars he must spend on coffee every year to charity. That would be doing something.

Trust no one, Julius said, and live without fear; love and torture make betrayers of us all.

Diogenes's quick wit and, dare we say it, cynical outlook disguised a first-class intellect focused on proving a single principle: that we have to own nothing, absolutely nothing, to be truly free.

Diogenes's goal, he said, was "to deface the coinage," meaning strip away the false conventions on which society was built and expose the raw reality underneath.

Dit is de pest met mensen: als ze eenmaal geloven bestaat het gevaar dat ze alles aannemen.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

Creo que en el mundo de hoy la única libertad posible es la indiferencia. Por eso seguiré viviendo con mi sable y mi caballo.

A mí no me mueve el amor por la humanidad, sino el desprecio hacia ella.

No todos los pueblos son igual de razonables para elegir su conveniencia o su destiño, ni igual de cínicos para justificarse después ante la Historia o ante sí mismos. En cuanto a nosotros, fuimos hombres de nuestro siglo: no escogimos nacer y vivir en aquella España, a menudo miserable y a veces magnífica, que nos tocó en suerte; pero fue la nuestra.

Sospechaban de él que no tenía corazón. (R. Sabatini. Scaramouche)

Para Falcó, palabras como patria, amor o futuro no tenían ningún sentido.

Bullshit, as usual

I'm rarely optimistic.