Quotes About Cynicism

When you dare aspire upward, you reveal the inadequacy of the present and the promise of the future. Then you disturb others, in the depths of their souls, where they understand that their cynicism and immobility are unjustifiable. You play Abel to their Cain. You remind them that they ceased caring not because of life's horrors, which are undeniable, but because they do not want to lift the world up on to their shoulders, where it belongs.

Everywhere, the cynic despairs, are bad decisions. But someone who has transcended that cynicism (or more accurately, replaced it with an even more profound doubt—that is, the doubt that doubt itself is an ultimately reliable guide) objects: the worst decision of all is none.

For such individuals, the world of experience is insufficient and evil—so to hell with everything!

the logical mind serves as a human bullshit detector.

Niemand profiteert meer van cynisme over politiek dan cynische politici.

He made a derisory snort.

When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.

And his fondness of people matched his low opinion of them.

He had lived long enough to know that it is foolish to tell the truth

Oh, and by the way Ã¢â'¬Â¦ there's no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny. Also bullshit. Sorry, kid. Deal with it.

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

Happiness in other people makes me suspicious.

My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.

Too many on the Left are earnest about nothing at all, sadly. They've been rendered spineless by snarkiness - not least on Twitter.

I think a pessimist is just an optimist who has had their heart repeatedly broken.

There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and his Administration try to accomplish.

The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.

I hate hype.

I'm impervious to charm. I can see through it.

The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.

He seemed born to find flaws in everything, a task at which he excelled and in which he seemed to delight.

Democracies cannot dispense with hypocrisy any more than dictatorships can with cynicism.

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.