I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work… — Robert Lopez Copy Share Image
The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism. — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
I do not want to be cynical, but if developing nations are kept backward by being told, again and again, you belong… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
We have for the past year and undoubtedly will be for the next year, dealing with an electorate that is more alienated… — Robert Teeter Copy Share Image
A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I was done with music and I became very cynical about the industry and Top 40 radio. I didn't even want to… — Darren Hayes Copy Share Image
I've been a politician and so I'm sometimes cynical about what politicians won't do. When I hear a politician say something that… — Allan Boesak Copy Share Image
I never expected the movement against globalization and corporate rule to mushroom as quickly as it has, either. And right now the… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
The profoundly cynical premise of all religionists is that people are not capable of behaving decently toward one another unless they are… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
In Yugoslavia we were told we were not only naive idealists in wanting war criminals to be prosecuted but that we were… — Payam Akhavan Copy Share Image
It seems absolutely wrong that people should be able to profit in this cynical way from an event that is designed to… — James Purnell Copy Share Image
Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to… — Kevin Martin Copy Share Image
Everybody's got a dud. You can't get out of it. That's the price of admission: you'll get some duds. You'll get some… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
I'm actually genuinely optimistic about the United States and what's possible in the United States. And when you're out here, you see… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The Iranian government prevented journalists from marching in solidarity with the victims of the Charlie Hebdo massacre yet it organized flag-burning protests… — Karim Sadjadpour Copy Share Image
The good television of today is probably better than the best television of the old days. The bad television of today is… — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I think we need to find out why the citizens of the world's wealthiest, most envied, most powerful country are so cynical,… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
I was never a liberal. I was radical. I was cynical. I was negative. But, I was never a liberal. I always… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
I am cynical about politicians. My experience of politicians has been thoroughly negative. I have found that politicians are people that can… — Zac Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Writing for children can be completely honest in non-cynical ways. In adult books you're required to be cynical. It embarrasses us to… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism. Even if… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
I figured even the most jaded and cynical inhabitant might report a bloody girl in a party dress carrying a severed head… — Faith Hunter Copy Share Image
I have no interest in behaving or thinking cynically. But it's an easy trap to be cynical about anything, certainly when you're… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Undermining life-affirming social solidarities and any viable notion of the public good, right-wing politicians trade in forms of idiocy and superstition that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Eleanor Roosevelt is a political force of enormous ambitions. I believe she is a menace, unscrupulous as to truth, vain and cynical… — Westbrook Pegler Copy Share Image
I'm pretty cynical about the future, but I feel like that's not an ethical position for me to take. It's not okay… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Andy Stasiuk was a newsman of the old school of front-page journalism - tough, knowledgeable, cynical, single-minded and fun. He covered the… — Donald Newhouse Copy Share Image
Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“And it’s easy to be cynical about death when you’re young. When you are young, death is an anomaly. It’s not real.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
IS [Islamic State] has played a major role in helping Bashar al-Assad to reposition Syria on the international scene. Now, it is… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
we know that our world is corrupt and diseased but we're tired of being cynical and feeling helpless. What the hell, tilt… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
When you play music with someone who has a heart rather than playing with someone who is just doing it for money… — Greg Lake Copy Share Image
I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart,… — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
“Sarah is the most enthusiastic cynical person on the planet. She’d be the perfect cheerleader if she weren’t so disgusted by the… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
I could never be cynical, not that I think there's anything wrong with cynicism. I think it can be quite funny at… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
I've always liked to be a meat and potatoes kind of actor who doesn't believe in any of the highfalutin stuff about… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of millions of… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness. — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image