Quotes About Cynicism

He warned that materialism undermined our moral values, that nationalism threatened to crush all hope of universal brotherhood, that militarism bred cynicism and distrust. He saw a moral rot at the core of American life and worried that racism had blinded many of us to

Know what Oscar Wilde said about cynics?" "They know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.

El hombre que se ríe de todo es que todo lo desprecia. La mujer que se ríe de todo es que sabe que tiene una dentadura bonita

Así funcionan los periódicos en este país, pero tú eras demasiado idealista para entenderlo.

Lo más terrible de todo es saber en que consiste esta miserable vida y, pese a todo, y con la mayor alevosía, tener hijos. Se necesita mucho cinismo, valor y crueldad para una cosa de ese estilo.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

sometimes the curses of the godless sound better than the hallelujahs of the pious." Barth

Unless we are hopelessly bound by cynicism, we have to acknowledge that the United States has been remarkably and consistently generous in sharing what it has, whether material things or ideas.

It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.

I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Cynicism is a boring and dull old man's disease people have no business getting when they're young.

and I gave him the police stare. The aim of the stare is to convey cynicism combined with weary patience. I know you're about to lie to me but because I am a hugely magnanimous agent of state power, I'm willing to give you a moment to think better of it.

Foxholes might breed belief, but trench systems are full of fatalistic cynics.

In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them. One way or another we are living the stories planted in us early or along the way, we are also living the stories we planted - knowingly or unknowingly - in ourselves. We live the stories that either give our lives meaning, or negate it with meaninglessness. If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change or lives.

Ninety-five percent of the people I deal with are shitbags who think the world is their personal litter box. I can't do them any good, and they don't want me to.

He that best understands the world, least likes it.

He that best understands the world, least likes it. - Benjamin Franklin, 1753

The world is a sewer of lies. We're all up to our necks in the sweet shit of it.

the player who looks least engaged may be the most committed member of the group. A cynic, after all, is a passionate person who does not want to be disappointed again.

Let the record reflect: the American people are a bunch of suckers.

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.