Cynical Quotes · Page 7

Powerful people doing bad things LIKE cynical, despairing citizens.

— Alex Steffen

I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be.

— Brian D. McLaren

I really try, at least consciously, not to be cynical or ironic.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.

— Stokely Carmichael

It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

— Carl Jung

That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.

— Sergei Lukyanenko

They speak very well of you". - "They speak very well of everybody." - "That so bad?" - "Yes. It means you…

— Anonymous

“John Stuart Mill declared that tyranny makes men cynical. He did not know that a Republic makes them silent.”

— Anonymous

We live in a cynical system where the powerful are able to exploit the demand of the aggressive few, from whichever religion…

— Amitava Kumar

The intelligent Trump supporter will be someone who is so cynical about politics that he wants the world blown up, and doesn't…

— Gene Weingarten

Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person…

— Bette Midler

You might have thought that a world such as ours, so hard-nosed and cynical and brash, would have very little time for…

— Desmond Tutu

As a product of divorced parents perhaps I should have been considerably more cynical, but for some reason I am a proponent…

— Ulrika Jonsson

But I'm trying not to be cynical - I don't want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity…

— Shannyn Sossamon

You know, it's fashionable right now for people to be cynical. We go in cycles like this and right now a lot…

— Barack Obama

“Humans are part of nature, and nature is one great big wood chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end…

— Douglas Coupland

“All I ask of you is one thing: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism — it’s my least favorite quality and…

— Conan O'Brien

I learned to stop being English about things like love. If you make a film in England about love, it's hugely complicated.…

— Simon Beaufoy

Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on…

— Peter Drucker

“At these repeated signs of decadence in a society which had once been the object of his envy and his highest ambition,…

— Thomas Wolfe

If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while…

— William Duncan Silkworth

Psychologists even have a term for this: they talk about 'mean world syndrome'. People who have just seen too much of the…

— Rutger Bregman

One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It…

— Edward Gibbon

I used to work for a succession of software editing companies that would have contracts with state and federal agencies. And I…

— Jeff Vandermeer

“Lilith thought. I'm cynical!I'm jaded and broken,and I will never love anyone.”

— L.K. Rigel

Viewing all the absurdities of cynical world the lone person that you can trust is yourself.

— Pappi Reddy

“He met failure as one day he would probably meet death, with cynical resentment and the courage of a solitary.”

— John le Carré

I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.

— Gore Vidal

“Every time you see a beautiful woman, just remember, somebody else got tired of her shit”

— Kinky Friedman

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is true what is said in Washington - 'No matter how cynical you get, it's never enough to catch up.'

— Louie Gohmert

We live in a world where everybody's supposed to be cool and act tough and put up fronts, and everybody is so…

— James Gunn

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

— Aldous Huxley

“I was born a cynical, suspicious, forty-five-year-old divorcée”

— Gabourey Sidibe

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

— H. L. Mencken

It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.

— Ann Beattie

Whenever I see Myself In A Mirror, It Whispers,You're A Monster And I says Doubt Me.

— NizamShahbaaz

A something-for-nothing culture does no one any favours. It makes those who are doing the right thing cynical.

— Chris Grayling

When you're dealing with the age of Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram, then everything becomes very selfish and cynical.

— Derek Trucks

The good news is hopeful doesn't mean dumb. The bad news is cynical doesn't mean smart.

— Sarah Silverman