Today, most Americans are too cynical, or tired, or both, to even approximate our Founders' courageous repudiation of injustice. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I'm not cynical or bitter in any way. Life's too short; you get ripped off, but if you hold a grudge, it's… — Tony Fernandes Copy Share Image
“I work hard to stay cynical enough! I keep my expectations of our culture and our leaders low, low, low, and I… — Vinnie Tesla Copy Share Image
The idea of it was I was thinking about how when you're a kid you get this unconditional love and you spend… — Sam Endicott Copy Share Image
It's funny, I see Wendy Kaminer herself as a kind of guru - a guru of the fashionably cynical set. Yet she… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Give me priests who are fat and corrupt and cynical,(...) the sort who like to sit on soft satin cushions, nibble sweetmeats,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The first of ‘Goose’s Two Laws of Survival.’ It runs thus, ‘The weak are meat the strong do eat.’ ” ... Henry grinned… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I may be in deep slop if the findings of a new study published in the latest issue of Neurology , journal… — Lionel Fisher Copy Share Image
The girls said she was too cynical about love, but how could you not be? On the surface, relations between men and… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Cynical? No. Realistic. As far as I’m concerned all you politicians are a bunch of lying, cheating, crooked wankers. You spout a… — Eli Yance Copy Share Image
Because I was from the Midwest and untrained, I was completely open and ready to try anything. Many of my classmates were… — Laila Robins Copy Share Image
I am a positive person. I am not cynical. If you are born in this world, no matter who you are, negative… — Bipasha Basu Copy Share Image
I think [John Adams] developed a much deeper suspicion of France and the other European powers than he had earlier. He lost… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
From before I was born, we Arabs have been caught between two forces that, seemingly, cannot be defeated: our ruthless dictators, who… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
From being a dream, dams have become a very cynical corrupt enterprise; a way of letting governments lay their hands on huge… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
We have reached a very cynical era of comedy. The Muppets have proven, for 40 years, that you can get laughs without… — Jason Segel Copy Share Image
If you want good things to happen in your life you first have to believe good things are possible for yourself. Quit… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
Sometimes you get the cynical person saying, 'Do we really need another book set in Nazi Germany?' But I think you just… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision — Rick Bayan 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
When I was thinking up that title, I was taking it from a more cynical approach. Saying 'God Save the Animals' wasn't… — Alex G Copy Share Image
'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist,… — Garry Shandling Copy Share Image
“That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
Sometimes I do think that politicians are only in it for themselves, but actually as Ive got older Ive started to feel… — Hugh Dennis Copy Share Image
For the fee of $10,000, anyone could be escorted to a room, handed a loaded gun and offered another human to kill.… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
You write who you are somehow. Even if you try to not to. You can't help but write who you are. I'm… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
You know, the cynicism that is in the politics, it is not for my soul. It makes me - out of me,… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
These are cynical times. Some of the romcoms I thought worked best in recent years were '500 Days of Summer,' 'Celeste and… — Ol Parker Copy Share Image
I don't want to make things that are cynical and aggressive just because, oh my God, there's enough of that going on… — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
In theory, the filibuster helps whichever party is in the minority in the Senate. In practice, it is the Republicans who have… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly - young and old, faithful and cynical… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
I always like to write something that will paint a cynical picture, but provide hope at the same time; I like to… — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid,… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
In retrospect, 'Bidenomics' was a sad, simple and cynical economic plan: spend, spend, spend while opening up the U.S. southern border to… — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
I remember when I was a kid, whenever you'd see cartoons cross over with each other, it always ranged from a delightful,… — Alex Hirsch Copy Share Image
You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“The naively cynical measure a piece of legislation, a victory, a milestone not against the past or the limits of the possible,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
![“I think [John Adams] developed a much deeper suspicion of France and the other European powers than he had earlier. He lost much if not all of the utopian thinking about international politics and diplomacy expressed in his Model Treaty of 1776 and became much more cynical about the world.” quote by Gordon S. Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ccc/gordon-s-wood-13199_cynical_i-think-john-adams-developed-a-much-deep_372770.jpg)
