Quotes About Cynicism

Check out the comments underneath," Augie says. I move the cursor down. "There are over fifty thousand of them." "Just click 'Top Comments' and read a few." I do as he asks. And as always when reading a comments section, my faith in humanity plummets:

Adam expected Mayor Gusherowski to look like a fat-cat politico fresh off the graft train—soft build, ruddy complexion, practiced smile, maybe a pinkie ring—and in this particular case, Adam was not disappointed. Adam wondered whether Gusherowski had always looked like a poster boy for corrupt politicians or if, over his years of "service," it had just become part of his DNA. Three

I have a saddened and weakening attitude toward the media and press.

Without the confidence to know our democracy is functioning properly, we risk more disillusionment, more cynicism, and even more public apathy toward the entire system.

There's a great public disinclination toward politicians.

I lean towards traditionally what people would consider the more negative side of life.

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Oh, lord. I was beginning to think like Neith. Soon I'd be huddled in an underground bunker eating army rations and cackling as I sewed together the pockets of all the boys who'd jilted me.

I've been barbecued, stewed, screwed, tattooed, and fried by people claiming to be my friends. The human race has gone backward, not forward, since the days we were apes swinging through the trees.

Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.

Scientists have discovered that the small, brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy.

Don't trust anyone over thirty

Really? It seems too good to be true. I don't trust it. I don't trust anyone.

I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them.

And he did see--that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself.

I had taken a partner once before—but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye open.

There's nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.

I didn't trust adults because I thought they were all kind of corrupted.

I don't trust anybody who didn't inhale.

We don't trust anyone who does anything nice. That's just the sad world we live in.

Someone who knew me well once accused me of being unromantic. And that's probably true: I don't trust romance.

The problem in today's world is that people do not believe (lack trust) in goodness.

The truth is not what we received today. Once again, we are being used as props in a Pentagon public relations exercise.

For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.