You should always be questioning your government, but do not become cynical. — Pete Visclosky Copy Share Image
Born in a generation that thinks cynical and disenchanted is cool, sometimes I'm a little off the beaten track. — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
It's kind of depressing, if you think about it. I mean, me being so young, and yet so cynical and suspicious. — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“- We're winning! - Who is 'we', mon Prince? - Not a word! I will tell you tomorrow.” — Talleyrand Copy Share Image
I love little kids, I hate little kids being used by cynical politicians, though. — Steve Schmidt Copy Share Image
This new world which is being born is cynical and amnesiac. And it has eliminated perspective. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
“It is cynical to say never trust anyone, but it is realistic to say rarely trust completely.” — Ronda Rich Copy Share Image
Americans are cool; if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
I suppose I am gently cynical about notions of who we think we are, but I certainly don't hate my fellow man.… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
“The aid industry has saved millions of lives, but it is complicated (and maybe this is a necessary evil) by a set… — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I felt slightl superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
At a time when opportunism is everything, when hope seems lost, when everything boils down to a cynical business deal, we must… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In the highest sense, we are all creatures of light. And I have a very difficult time talking with people who are… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“How is it that one day life is orderly and you are content, a little cynical perhaps but on the whole just… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Charitable endeavour exalts the prestige and the status of the giver. This may sound unduly cynical but as with all philantrophic activity,… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Very often I'm told that my heart's cold. That I'm the type to let my eyes speak what my mouth won't. That… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
“Never shy away from opportunity and wholehearted living. Never be fearful of putting yourself out there. The courageous may encounter many disappointments,… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
“Warning to the despised. – If you have unmistakably sunk in the estimation of men you should hold on like grim death… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The causes of any widespread scepticism are likely to be sociological rather than intellectual. The main cause is always comfort without power.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood… — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Copy Share Image
