Quotes About Cynicism

Por qué los principales pensadores posmodernos son políticamente de izquierda, y en la mayoría de los casos de extrema izquierda? ¿Y por qué ese prominente segmento de la izquierda, la misma izquierda que tradicionalmente defendía sus posiciones con los fundamentos modernos de la razón, la ciencia, la justicia para todos y el optimismo, es ahora vocera de posturas antirazón, anticiencia, del vale todo en la guerra y en el amor, y del cinismo?

If Mephistopheles climbed up the pulpit and read the Gospel, could anyone be inspired by this prayer?" huffed a newspaper of Germany's outflanked liberals.

They were deployed not just to dodge a particular discussion, but to recast cynicism as a form of wisdom, and moral negligence as a form of martyrdom.

Looking at this town with an honest eye was like biting into candy with a mouthful of cavities.

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows that the good guys lost —LEONARD COHEN, "Everybody Knows," 1988

I instantly regretted it. Cynicism is a decadent pose, a façade of apathetic ennui that's antithetical to the committed idealism of the true internationalist. But when you're a private eye, it sort of gets to be a habit.

There was an old saying among the Perish that a room full of women was a knife-seller's vision of paradise. 'There will be betrayal.' Oh yes indeed. Betrayal .

When anybody goes to L.A. from London, there's always this slight sense of, 'What are you doing? Who do you think you are? It's never gonna happen.' It's the classic, good-natured British cynicism.

When you're dealing with the age of Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram, then everything becomes very selfish and cynical.

I don't like people. I don't like any kind of people. When you get them together in a big lump they all get nasty and dirty and full of trouble. So I don't like people including you. That's what a misanthropist is.

I was a ruthless bastard with a twisted mind who could look on death and find it pleasant. I could break an arm or smash in a face because it was easier that way than asking questions. I could out-fox the fox with a line of reasoning that laughed at the truth because I was the worst of the lot and never did deserve to live. That's what that damned judge thought anyway.

En este mundo, si los cabrones volaran, nublarían el sol.

Querido mío, yo odio a los hombres para no despreciarlos, pues de lo contrario la vida sería una farsa demasiado asquerosa.

Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.

This reconciliation with Hitler reveals the profound moral perversity of a world that rests essentially on the nonexistence of return, for in this world everything is pardoned in advance and therefore everything cynically permitted.

Aceasta impacare cu Hitler tradeaza profunda perversiune morala, inerenta unei lumi intemeiate esential pe inexistenta intoarcerii, caci in aceasta lume totul e dinainte iertat si, in consecinta, totul e ingaduit cu cinism, » (p. 8)

I have become so pessimistic that these days I'd even choose the truth over friendship.

Havia outrora um filósofo cínico que se exibia nas ruas de Atenas vestido com uma túnica esburacada, para que todos o admirassem vendo-o ostentar o seu desprezo pelas convenções. Um dia, Sócrates encontra-o e diz-lhe: Vejo a tua vaidade pelo buraco da tua túnica. Também a sua porcaria senhor, é uma vaidade, e a sua vaidade uma porcaria.

Se há coisa que sempre me enojou profundamente no homem é realmente ver como a sua crueldade, a sua baixeza e a sua estupidez arranjam maneira de se disfarçar sob a máscara do lirismo.

I had been poor myself, and knew what awaited him in the world. He would find that they who fawned on him most would be first to turn their backs on him now. He would be rudely disillusioned regarding the fables of love and friendship, and would become cynical, bitter, and sceptical of there being any disinterested good in human nature.

Society does not love its unmaskers.

I love smarta**es when it's stuff I agree with.

God designs people's emotions so you fall in love with people who, in return, wouldn't even use your hollowed-out skull for a spittoon.

Though the man above might say hello, expect no love from the beast below