Quotes About Cynicism

Boy meets girl. So what?

When something seems 'the most obvious thing in the world' it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage, and guarantee he'd be dead within the year.

A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.

I can't watch TV longer than five minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust.

It is, and has been, and will forever be, this world of ours, a fucking joke.

I don't trust these stairs because they are always up to something.

Doug Stanhope is great - I saw his 'Burning the Bridge to Nowhere' show and it was inspiring. He's like an anti-shaman, taking the sting out of a bunch of things we've chosen to give a symbolic power to. I've made it sound noble and worthy there, it's not, it's really funny.

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you sometimes wonder whether we overdo it.

I'm not easily wound up, but overly cynical people irritate me.

Politicians today are not highly regarded... there seem to be people young and old and in the middle saying that they have never heard such wretched debates.

Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that.

Chaque sourire cachait un bâillement d'ennui, chaque joie une malédiction, tout plaisir son dégoût, et les meilleurs baisers ne vous laissaient sur la lèvre qu'une irréalisable envie d'une volupté plus haute.

Bouvard thought: 'Ah, progress, what a farce!' He added: 'And politics, what a filthy mess!' 

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

O pior governo é o mais moral. Um governo composto de cínicos é frequentemente mais tolerante e humano. Mas, quando os fanáticos tomam o poder, não há limite para a opressão

No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

No one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

H.L. Mencken

What has come to light is neither nihilism nor cynicism, as one might have expected, but a quite extraordinary confusion over elementary questions of morality—as if an instinct in such matters were truly the last thing to be taken for granted in our time.

It has frequently been noticed that the surest long-term result of brainwashing is a peculiar kind of cynicism — an absolute refusal to believe in the truth of anything, no matter how well this truth may be established.

Într-o lume de neînÈ›eles, mereu schimb?toare, masele atinseser? punctul în care puteau crede, în acelaÈ™i timp, orice sau nimic, când ele gândeau c? totul este posibil È™i c? nimic nu e adev?rat. Amestecul era destul de ciudat, întru-cât demonstra sfârÈ™itul iluziei c? naivitatea era o sl?biciune a spiritelor primitive neb?nuitoare, iar cinismul reprezenta viciul unor minÈ›i superioare È™i rafinate.

If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer.