Quotes About Cynicism

I'm not going to reduce the choices of Canadians at the ballot box by backroom deals or secret arrangements. I think that's a cause for cynicism more than anything else.

I know 150 percent how deeply cynical and negative I can be. I can be very dark and harsh.

Every day, there's something that makes you go, 'Is this Funny or Die?' That can't be a real headline.

You can almost hear people saying, 'We're going to make a movie about an election' and 'We're going to make a movie about a lobbyist.' You can hear the yawning start across the nation.

People can be so heartless and dirty.

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.

No sentimentality, comrade...The only good human being is a dead one.

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

Goldstein was delivering his usual venomous attack upon the doctrines of the Party—an attack so exaggerated and perverse that a child should have been able to see through it, and yet just plausible enough to fill one with an alarmed feeling that other people, less level-headed than oneself, might be taken in by it.

I hate purity, I hate goodness, I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.

He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him)

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

A certain cynicism, born of the life she has led; a streak of strange wisdom; the wistfulness behind the gaiety; sometimes fear; and nearly always the memory of loneliness that hurts the soul.

If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

Today, most Americans are too cynical, or tired, or both, to even approximate our Founders' courageous repudiation of injustice.

I've spent a long time giving people the benefit of the doubt, and I'm tired of it.

My instinct is to be honest and make fun of things.

The only reason I'd bring a Bible out here is if I needed toilet paper.

I am in full possession of the amazing power of being sarcastic.

I've given up reading the papers. Since the world's so obviously bent on killing itself, I decided months ago to sit back and let it.

the madder he knows you to be, the better. Saves disappointment, don't it?

when you despise yourself and everyone else in the world, you just give up, say fuck it, and pray the fuckers will accidentally press the big bomb buttons

I do not believe in goodness in the world anymore. What is good either dies or is killed.