Caution and cynicism are safe, but soldiers don't want to follow cautious cynics. — Stanley A. McChrystal Copy Share Image
“If you're always worried about crushing the ants beneath you... you won't be able to walk.” — Kentaro Miura Copy Share Image
They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails." — Yuri Orlov Copy Share Image
All lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism. — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it's supposed sophistication,… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy. Just because you're cynical doesn't mean you're cool. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Maybe I am naive, but I don't think talking about the Holocaust with total and complete cynicism is possible for Israeli politicians.… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
“It seems all spirits need theatrics, eh? Even Christ himself requires incense and holy water. We're a skeptical people. We need convincing.” — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
“Saturday is the mightiest day of the week. It's unshakably, overwhelmingly superior. Not only is it a day off of school, the… — Wataru Watari Copy Share Image
The thing that worries me more than anything else is losing faith in the capacity of politics to change things. I don't… — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
“The public is always relieved to find that once the chief officers of state are elected they do not sincerely want change.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Be a light, not a judge, be a model not a critic. Little by little, your circle of influence will explode and… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
We have to recognize we've got some big problems on race, just like we got still big problems on crime, just like… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I never think I feel cynical in general. Cynical is reality with an alternate spelling. I feel there's a gigantic amount of… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
When people treat corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You… — Edward Brooke Copy Share Image
Evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's leaders to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Why is it that with women, some kink, some vulnerability of the sex, is always presumed to lie at the heart of… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and medals, or… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“Results are their own propaganda. The vast majority of the people are free, prosperous, and safe under the Phoenix Society's rule. They… — Matthew Graybosch Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us. The disappointments of life, the injustices,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Here is the mistake of the cut-and-dried man of culture. He goes about with the secret of having learned to appreciate the… — Richard Holt Hutton Copy Share Image
“I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
People confuse the word cynicism with the word skepticism. One is “you’re not gonna pay attention to anything, think everything’s screwed up,… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
I love things that are brave enough to be nakedly about what our lives are actually built of, when you're wild about… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
“A thousand years from now nobody is going to know that you or I ever lived. The cynic is right, but lazy.… — Jackson Burnett Copy Share Image
If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Curmudgeons speak up because they have to, because it’s become critically important for them to tell the truth as they see it.… — Lionel Fisher Copy Share Image
