Quotes About Cynicism

Cynicism results from unrealistic expectations. If we expect an argument to be a knock-down proof that convinces everyone immediately on first hearing, then we are bound to be disappointed. Almost no arguments work like that. If we trim our expectations to make them more realistic, and if we are patient enough to wait for effects that take a while instead of demanding immediate capitulation, then we will find that reasons and arguments can have some influence.

If anyone in this shithole city gave two tugs of a dead dog's cock about Truth, this wouldn't be happening.

All people are scum. No matter what they look like.

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

My mind reels with sarcastic replies!

I'm getting old, thought Eileen Calder. Old and worn out and cynical. And being cynical is a lot worse than being old or worn out.

Hi-def is merely the latest in a string of evolutional leaps that have transformed the way we sit slumped in front of a box wishing we were dead.

If it is too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true.

Now the man in the street knows nothing of Biometrika: all he knows is that "you can prove anything by figures," though he forgets this the moment figures are used to prove anything he wants to believe.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

I am suspicious of all the things that the average people believes.

Vice President) Garner has taken his personal smallness, his lack of generosity, and forged it into a political principle. He has no imagination, no convictions, and he substitutes political cynicism for social understanding.

But cynicism is only disappointed idealism.

Politics should make a thief, a roué, and a pessimist of anyone but I don't believe I am any of them...

The bad stuff is easier to believe. You ever notice that?

Elections are a Western jerk-off.

not that anyone was actually keeping one.

The quoting of an aphorism, like the angry barking of a dog or the smell of overcooked broccoli, rarely indicates that something helpful is about to happen.

If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other books. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.

I'm afraid that's the wicked way of the world. Everything's covered in smoke and mirrors.

Busheney," Sunny said, which meant something along the lines of, "You're an evil man with no concern whatsoever for other people.

I'm bored with happy couples. I don't believe in them. They're false. They're deceiving themselves.

When confronting a claim about the distant past or a statement about what happened yesterday, students—indeed, all Americans—need to develop informed skepticism, not nihilistic cynicism.

A poca gente quiero de verdad, y de muy pocos tengo buen concepto. Cuanto más conozco el mundo, más me desagrada, y el tiempo me confirma mi creencia en la inconsistencia del carácter humano y en lo poco que se puede uno fiar de las apariencias de bondad o inteligencia.