The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business. — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
Love is the fart Of every heart It pains the man when 'tis kept close, And others doth offend, when 'tis let… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've found myself getting more and more cynical about what's happening to the planet - it makes me furious. — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason. — John Harington Copy Share Image
I am discovering that I can live far better without cynicism than I can without trust. — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
We should take heart from our own experience and performance. In a cynical world we have become an inspiration to many. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
It is time to provide a smashing answer for those cynical men who say that a democracy cannot be honest, cannot be… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
It is a good idea to 'shop around' before you settle on a doctor. Ask about the condition of his Mercedes. Ask… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
You've got to be strong enough for love. It's very easy to be cool and cynical. It's very difficult to just let… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
Take away the Holocaust and what do you have left? Without their precious Holocaust, what are the Jews? Just a grubby little… — Harold Covington Copy Share Image
Sleater-Kinney is a band that we hold close to our hearts as well; it's not something that we're cynical or jaded about.… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
For the Russians, the displacement of the Holocaust is calculated and cynical. It's not emotional; they don't care about the Holocaust one… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
“There is something profoundly cynical, my friends, in the notion of paradise after death. The lure is evasion. The promise is excusative.… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
“One of the causes of unhappiness among intellectuals in the present day is that so many of them, especially those whose skill… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think you find stories with fresh perspectives, and there can be a danger in the opposite way when you start getting… — Amy Chozick Copy Share Image
All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
“The revelation that there was nothing "special" about humanity didn't shock her. Not specifically. She'd always been cynical about that sort of… — A. Lee Martinez Copy Share Image
I find myself being quite cynical - and I think we all kind of are - towards the idea that it's associated… — Thomas Powers Copy Share Image
The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know - people live their life like… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy's side of the front is always propaganda and… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. That means trying to understand, take in, connect with, what… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
New York is hard, cynical, ruthless, even beyond other cities. From their early repression its children emerge sophisticated, both stunted and overdeveloped,… — Ernest Gruening Copy Share Image
If you're constantly stepping outside of the character and judging them, you'll never really be able to fully engage because you'll always… — James Norton Copy Share Image
I think Kennedy being assassinated changed the world. That shot changed everything about America, and made us cynical, made people discontent and… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
“That's because the analysts are writing about a country they call Mind and the neuroscientists are reporting from the country they call… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
People don't care anymore because they don't believe in us; they don't trust us. And that's why we should change politics, not… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
At a time when opportunism is everything, when hope seems lost, when everything boils down to a cynical business deal, we must… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They're the things that we carry with us,… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In the highest sense, we are all creatures of light. And I have a very difficult time talking with people who are… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“I felt slightl superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I'm getting old, thought Eileen Calder. Old and worn out and cynical. And being cynical is a lot worse than being old… — Charles Sheffield Copy Share Image
