Quotes About Cynicism

spending so much time with people who are willing to lie, steal, or worse in order to get what they want that I start accepting that as the normal course of events.

No, she thought, you are not going to catch me so cheaply; I do not understand words and will not accept them in trade for my feelings; this man is a parrot.

I'll tell them,' she said, and the baby looked at me cynically.

He believed nothing he was told and trusted no one.

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all.

Death makes cynics of us all

The Senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his ideas almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of a traveling salesman for church furniture, and his yet more celebrated humor the sly cynicism of a country

The Senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his "ideas" almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of a traveling salesman for church furniture, and his yet more celebrated humor the sly cynicism of a

I tell you, an honest man gets sick when he hears the word 'Liberty' today, after what the Republicans did to it!

The Senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his ideas almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of a traveling salesman for church furniture, and his yet more celebrated humor the sly cynicism of a country store.

What's up with you? How come you're being like this?' Because it's the truth. This is the world we live in.

But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.''You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

Being yourself is an old myth, being fake in this world of cruelness is a new trick

Living as I do with human beings, the more that I observe them, the more I am forced to conclude that they are selfish.

While skepticism is healthy, cynicism, real cynicism, is toxic.

To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

Buzzards don't make good friends. They always have an interior motive.

The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for is a rejection of conservatism. They claim to present an alternate social model, when they are little more than the courtiers of the corporatist movement. Their agitation is filled with the bitterness and cynicism typical of courtiers who scramble for crumbs at the banquet tables of real power, but are always denied a proper chair.

My friend Oz Katerji once saw a great line of graffiti in Beirut that can work for every war reporter in every war: 'I don't believe in anything. I am just here for the violence.

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

Los duelos sólo son a muerte cuando lo que hay en juego es una de estas dos cosas: poder o dinero. —¿Qué hay del honor? —¿Qué se puede comprar con el honor? —preguntó cínicamente la duquesa.

Sa petreci o seara intreaga langa un om care traieste in minciuna,care e un gunoi dar nu stie (sau nu crede) ca este,o asemenea seara iti lasa un dezgust care a doua zi te bantuie si-ti strica ziua.

The cynicism of utter solitude is a calvary relieved by insolence.

The leftist's despair is to battle in the name of principles that forbid him cynicism.