Quotes About Cynicism

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. Good night.

Can'ttrustpeople. Won'tdoanygood. They'llkillyoueverytime. They'llkilleachother. They'llkilleveryone.

I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.

I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.

I read from Mark Twain's lips one or two of his good stories. He has his own way of thinking, saying and doing everything. I feel the twinkle of his eye in his handshake. Even while he utters his cynical wisdom in an indescribably droll voice, he makes you feel that his heart is a tender Iliad of human sympathy.

Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can only make a monkey out of the voters every four years!

Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use - a cynic might say that this is why they continue to exist.

The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

Next its gonna be jump off a cliff day.

It may sound cruel...but...what makes a criminal is a disposition toward cruelty, a laziness and impatience that lead to taking from others, and cynicism that pretends there is a war going on, and that the victims are the result of a conflict that somebody else started. "[Caligula and DeSade] were expressing through the license of...power their outrage and boredom, and apparently meaningless lives. That these attitudes have filtered down to the lower classes is what is new.

Art?k her ÅŸeyi biliyorlar. Kendilerine yalan söylendiÄŸini, bütün insanlar?n kötü olduÄŸunu ve alçakl?k edebileceÄŸini biliyorlar. Ana babalar?n? da sevmiyorlar art?k, onlara inanm?yorlar.

Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void.

The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism.

All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.

On Mother's Day: It's just a rip-off, to tell the truth, a chance to sell my perfume and other things that ladies like.

The truth is overrated.

Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.

The worst thing about cynicism is its truth.