Quotes About Cynicism

Cynicism is our shared common language, the Esperanto that actually caught on, and though I'm not fluent in it - I like too many things, and I'm not envious of enough people - I know enough to get by.

In a few short weeks, mock-marital status had ceased to be something to aspire to, and had become a cause for scorn. At seventeen, we were becoming as embittered and as unromantic as our parents.

Man kann sich über jeden lustig machen, der unglücklich ist, man muss nur grausam genug sein.

I assumed it was someone trying to sell me something. They're always calling to sell. Once they said if I sent in a check for $99 I'd be pre-approved for a credit card, and I said, Right, sure, and if I step under a pigeon I'm preapproved for a load of shit

El cinismo es la única fuerza bajo la cual las almas vulgares rozan lo que se llama sinceridad»

That night was my first exposure to the life I was supposed to be living at my age. I dont know, I didn't get it. You'll get a job, hate your life, and you'll want to drink too!-they always say.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

People who are drawn to journalism are usually people who, because of their cynicism or emotional detachment or reserve or whatever, are incapable of being anything but witnesses to events. Something prevents them from becoming involved, committed, and allows them to remain separate.

My marriage to him was as willful an act as I have ever committed; I married him against all the evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable of being.

Now I know that there's no such thing as the truth. That people are constantly misquoted. That news organizations are full of conspiracy (and that, in any case, ineptness is a kind of conspiracy). That emotional detachment and cynicism get you only so far.

Ahora sé que la verdad no existe. Que las declaraciones de la gente se tergiversan continuamente. Que los medios de comunicación son un hervidero de conspiraciones (y que, en cualquier caso, la ineptitud es una forma de conspiración). Que con cinismo y desapego emocional no se llega demasiado lejos.

My mother says happy ever after's a bunch of bull.

I'll just go rub some salt in her wounds,then i think I'll run out and kick some puppies on my way to foreclosing on my quota of widows and orphans.

Politics. It's for idiots and bad actors.

My mother says happy ever after's a bunch of bull.

Citizens have very little choice in terms of influencing major decisions. The influence of social media, the funding of political parties and the lust to hold onto power weakens year by year the body of the democratic processes. Cynicism and disillusionment has become rampant in democratic countries. We live largely under the control of rich and powerful institutions and individuals.

In any situation, the villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least.

Whenever someone says something that's both realistic and abhorrent, It makes me suspect everyone else is lying about everything else.

Most episodes of Seinfeld circuitously forward two worldviews: The first is that most people are bad (and not very smart). The ­second is that caring about other people is absurd (and not very practical). It is the most villainous sitcom ever made, particularly since its massive audience never seemed to fully grasp what it was literally seeing.

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

Maybe we should always assume the worst.

Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

I tell everybody, I'm tired of being jerked around. Okay? So let's just not pretend. I don't have fuck for a heart. You people are not going to make me feel anything. You are not going to get to me.