Quotes About Cynicism

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

Feinstein doesn't interact with the people at all, and I think it breeds cynicism.

It will move through you and you will touch joy and suddenly realize you have never felt joy because it requires abandon. It grows from gratitude and cannot exist where there is mad cynicism or distrust. You will touch this joy and you will suddenly know it is what you were looking for your whole life, but you were afraid to even acknowledge the absence because the hunger for it was so encompassing.

I fight cynicism. It`s too easy. It`s really boring. It`s much harder to be positive and see the wonder of everything. Cynicism is a bunch of people who aren`t as talented as other people, knocking them because they make them feel even more untalented.

I always say that Religion and Politics are just clever ways to make un-content people content with their un-contentedness.

When once--which every body must be--you are convinced of the wickedness and deceit of men, it is impossible to preserve untainted your own innocence of heart.

Tenemos los ojos cansados de tanto ver, y los oídos de tanto oír, y el corazón de tanto odiar.

It makes me feel tired about how guarded we are the whole time. Without even trying we're ready to make a joke of everything, serving up the day with big dollops of irony and derision and cynicism. As if. Sucked in. Kidding.

God fearing and man hating. Sugar sugar. There was so much sugar in the way they pretended to treat each other that I suffered from diabetes of the soul.

Îmi place ironia f?r? cinism, luciditatea f?r? nihilism, via?a dulce f?r? culpabilitate, polite?ea f?r? ipocrizie, timiditatea f?r? afectare, generozitatea f?r? poman?, fericirea f?r? plictis, lacrimile f?r? motiv.

Favorite animal: steak.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

If our minds and hearts are not filled with God's truth, something else will take His place: cynicism, occultism, false religions and philosophies, drugs—the list is endless.

When two pessimists get together, it results in an endless cycle of pointless second-guessing. Very interesting.

All the girls stared at me with hatred in their eyes. It was a big drama that had to be acted out. But deep down, nobody really cared. The other girls didn't care about Jennifer. Jennifer didn't care about me. I didn't care about anything. Everyone was so full of crap.

I have never encountered angrier and more cynical employees than those I've met in socially responsible companies that have been so focused on saving the world they neglected to do what was necessary to save themselves.

I remain more suspicious of religion than most people who'd never darken the door of a church.

They do not have big ideas or a grandiose vision of what America should be like. They pretty much just love to hate.

At core, no matter how kindly may be your thoughts of the human race, there are times when all you want to do is crumple it up and either set fire to it, or use it to pad the floor of a bird cage. Big bird cage. Really big bird.

That's what happens, friends. It gets so damned depressing, coming up against the cultural hari-kiri we keep committing, that cynicism becomes the only supportable attitude. And then the kids prove they've got it. Even I, anxious to give them every possible point, begin to suspect the rot goes from top to bottom, young and old alike. And then the kids do me in. They come up with solid gold, and make me feel like the idiot I certainly am, on occasion.

I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before and they did it tonight and they'll do it again and when they do it--seems that only children weep.

It's grown people who always believe the worst

It's not becoming to a child. It's—cynical.