The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic… — Tom Robbins 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
It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that. — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war The mobilization order… — Bertolt Brecht 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
“At least you pay for them.” “I could support a foundling hospital, and you would applaud my virtue.” “I didn’t expect you… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I'm a cynical person who's normally attracted to the dark side of things. — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
The modern wars are also omnipresent in our electronic media - to be cynical about it, we now have 24 hours of… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
I've spent my entire adult life teaching at colleges of various kinds, all of them very different from Yale, and I have… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
“I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature… — Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Edgar Allan Poe is amazing because he was so dark. He's from Baltimore and so cynical that you can feel it when… — Goldlink Copy Share Image
“The first rule in life is 'everybody lies.' Remember that and you'll get a lot further.” — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
This notion that's peddled by the religious right - that they are oppressed is not true. Sometimes it's a cynical ploy to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I'm cynical by nature, but I am also very hopeful because I see people from the Left and the Right showing up… — Joe Wurzelbacher Copy Share Image
Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world.… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical. — Robert A. Heinlein 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
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of his history, it is difficult to avoid the… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
