If you're conscious you must be depressed, or at least cynical. — Andrew VanWyngarden Copy Share Image
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary... But to survive, we must learn. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
I'm not cynical about love at all. I'm very practical. I think love takes up a lot of time. — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off. — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
I'm a comedian. Comedians are supposed to be jaded, cynical, angry people. But I'm not: I'm a silly, silly fun boy. — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age. — L. Ron Hubbard 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
Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
We muckraked, not because we hated our world, but because we loved it. We were not hopeless, we were not cynical, we… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image
Being cynical isn't necessarily being negative or bitter. It's a person who is wary of mistaking love for something that it's not… — Charlyne Yi Copy Share Image
Wonder is very necessary in life. When we're little kids, we're filled with wonder for the world - it's fascinating and miraculous.… — Doug Henning Copy Share Image
Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books… I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
They sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, Logical, oh responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where… — Roger Hodgson Copy Share Image
What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“...to experience a furious disillusionment with ‘conventional’ politics, a bit young to be so cynical and so superior, you may think. My… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
My brother and I both like sarcastic, insulting comedy, so that's a way we communicate. Somehow that's what we learned. My mom… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
“The death of awe in our culture has left us with an oddly credulous cynicism. We are cynical, suspicious of established government,… — Dennis E. Johnson Copy Share Image
I think that the philosopher must, for his own purposes, carry methodological strictness to an extreme when he is investigating and pursuing… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
All politicians are not the same. I've never felt that way. What is the same is that voters get very excited about… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Along with faith comes the requirement for dogged persistence. At first meditation may bring you mild highs or some relief from suffering.… — Ram Dass 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
As a dialectical materialist, I do not believe that social contradictions can be solved individually. On the other hand, if you give… — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
