The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Cynicism is the last refuge of those who don't want to do the work of creating a better society. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
It's good to be a cynic. I'm a cynic. But the best part of being a cynic is somebody proving you wrong. — Tom King Copy Share Image
Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food. — Dean McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil. — Vachel Lindsay Copy Share Image
“Cynicism is what happens when skepticism is given too much latitude.” — Chris Brady Copy Share Image
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The nature of journalism has been the enemy of idealism and the source of cynicism among American reporters and editors throughout our… — Richard Harwood Copy Share Image
“I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
“All men have a natural fear of making a mistake--by believing too well of a person. However, the error of believing too… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“He said cynicism’s self-protection, a defense mechanism used by cowards who give up on love because they’re afraid love’s given up on… — Linda Yellin Copy Share Image
Scientists have discovered that the small brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
Cynicism was a school in Greece - the Cynics. Diogenes is a famous Cynic. There was a strong belief in nihilism and… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
“What if good institutions were in fact the product of good intentions? What if the cynicism that is supposed to be rigor… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
My gaze flew to him once more,noting the cigarette he set down even as he exhaled a long plume of white."Why are… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been… — Robert Teeter Copy Share Image
Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness - that is, the improbable - with becoming, and to coerce… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The church seeks to help form people who can risk being peaceful in a violent world, risk being kind in a competitive… — John Howard Yoder Copy Share Image
Such techniques, including meta-discursive stuff, self-reference, irony, black humor, cynicism, grotesquerie and shock, it would be safe to say that television or… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“This is some sort of joke, isn't it?" asks Hunt, staring at the flawless blue sky and distant fields. I cough as… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Life is too short to be cynical, So smile dare to believe, and leave the door open for the MAGIC.. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall. — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
“It's astonishing what a number of churches and idiots there are in the world.” — Karel Čapek Copy Share Image
“You never say a moral thing, and you never do a wrong thing. Your cynicism is simply a pose.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We will need to work hard to break the cynicism, talk straight and rebuild trust in politics. — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
It's all about the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Cynicism isn't smarter, it's only safer. There's nothing fluffy about optimism. — Jewel Copy Share Image
A cynic sees little to admire in the world, while the world sees even less to admire in him. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
