Quotes About Cynicism

There is much to be cynical about—and it is a good answer if there has not been an incarnation. But if that has happened, if the Word did become flesh, and if there are men and women who in and through their own vocations imitate the vocation of God, then sometimes and in some places the world becomes something more like the way it ought to be.

ExperienÈ›a[..] este cap?tul unor încerc?ri fructoase, întreprinse cu cel mai des?vârÈ™it cinism, de a nega toate acele lucruri pe care le-au preÈ›uit ca adev?rate,curate,drepte. Ei unii nu-È™i dau seama de teribilul cinism care zace în aceast? permanent? definire a experienÈ›ei ca suprem scop al vieÈ›ii.

Big business increasingly likes to portray itself as socially concerned, adopting the style of civic action through 'campaigns' of varying degrees of cynicism.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

You write who you are somehow. Even if you try to not to. You can't help but write who you are. I'm just not a very cynical person. I believe in the humanity of people, whether it is just the guys in 'The Full Monty' or Aron Ralston.

cynicism springs from disappointments in love.

I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.

The world has become jaded. Romance has died, some no longer believe in love, and because of this, they suffer.

Anyone who sang the praises of undying love in this day and age belonged to the first rank of hypocrites in Daisuke's estimate.

Sami lopovi vrve svijetom, kao crvi u crvljivom mesu: sumnja velika i nepovjerenje na sve strane, a i dobro da je tako, jer je ?ovjek ro?en kao lopov!

This is not the time to be looking for ways to dismiss a nascent movement against the power of capital, but to do the opposite: to find ways to embrace it, support it and help it grow into its enormous potential. With so much at stake, cynicism is a luxury we simply cannot afford.

But because we were being systematically lied to, and because CBS and other media were not doing their jobs, and were cynically misrepresenting the data, for far too long, like millions of others, I was terrified, and so were the people I loved.

Flowers tell us about the delicacy and tenderness and whimsical poignant hopefulness of the earth. They tell us about this unexpected unnecessary beauty that takes us off our guard and bursts through our cynicism every year

As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting, seeing light where there's dark, seeing possibility in dead ends, tasting victory as others spit out failure, questioning where others accept. Just a little less jaded, a little less cynical.

When those who have passed through their troubles and come out the other side suddenly with their new beliefs wholeheartedly, it is viewed with cynicism by others. Why? Because when you're in trouble you look harder for answers than those who aren't, and it's those answers that help you through.

The everyday was king. And the courtiers were popularization, superficiality, doubt, cynicism. The century was exhausted.

Films with a message just make me laugh.

I haven't watched Miss America since I was in middle school, and I was incredulous even then.

He abhorred people who said things that hadn't been thought through, thus he abhorred almost all mankind.

After the Age of Pericles, as Athenian confidence dimmed, that famous confidence was all too often replaced by cynicism, modesty by cockiness, sincerity by manipulation, strength by bluster. Though the gods were more and more loudly invoked, the prayers rang hollow, the appeal to conscience turned mute, and any reference to social justice tended to be met with a knowing smirk.

Are you looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis.

Meantime the Newspaper of Record goes around in a little pleated skirt shaking pompoms, leaping in the air with an idiot grin if so much as a cement mixer passes by.

You trusted people until they betrayed you, but the alternative, trusting nobody ever, turned you into one more Clive Crouchmas, and the world had enough of them already.

Y qué quieres?, ¿es que sólo tengo que fiarme de las buenas personas?, tío, a las buenas personas las compran y las venden todos los días. Tanto da que me fíe de algún auténtico cabrón de vez en cuando, al final viene a ser lo mismo. Quiero decir que no apostaría por ninguno de los dos.