Quotes About Cynicism

The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance

The world is not so kind, people trap your mind.

Ignore cynicism, appreciate criticism, and embrace optimism.

If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there's no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.

I don't think either one of them knows what it's all about, to be honest with you. Both sides are doing nothing but just looking towards the next election.

People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.

One of the most dangerous things about Fox News isn't that it's right wing but that it's nihilistic. It takes away the capacity to believe in politics.

I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.

It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

Experience has taught that politics is a game played by conmen and hypocrites.

In fact, the likeliest reason why so many of us care so little about politics is that modern politicians makes us sad, hurt us deep down in ways that are hard even to name, much less talk about.

All politicians promise that which they cannot deliver. I just wish they did so less gleefully.

Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics.

All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.

There aren't many idealists in politics.

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

The more you read about politics the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.