Cynicism Quotes · Page 3

[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.

— George Berkeley

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

— Pauline Kael

I get the feeling that my songs aren't that dark. There is a cynicism but humour also - it's not depression upon…

— Stromae

Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.

— Ben Shapiro

The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for…

— John Ralston Saul

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour…

— Edward Dowden

People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and medals, or…

— Walter Brueggemann

“In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a…

— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

I think the most important thing is [to] restore a sense of idealism and end the cynicism in state government. Bring to…

— Rod Blagojevich

On a certain level, I don't think there is an answer to what the American way is, because it is constantly being…

— J. Michael Straczynski

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

— Mason Cooley

I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don't really know where wittiness…

— Matthew McConaughey

I was a bit of a humour black sheep. I would make these jokes full of irony and dark cynicism and that…

— Ayda Field

HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act…

— Rob Brezsny

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

— H. L. Mencken

What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning…

— Abraham Verghese

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Cynicism ... is the trade-mark of failure.

— Katherine Cecil Thurston

“Cynicism is a boring and dull old man’s disease people have no business getting when they’re young.”

— Erika Lopez

On the other hand, with a sense of the sacred, one grows in understanding and truth. The Holy Spirit becomes his frequent…

— D. Todd Christofferson

You would be naive to suggest that politics isn't complicated or isn't a game, but you don't create change through cynicism.

— Sophie Gregoire Trudeau

“Idealists and reformers all become executioners in their turn. The road to utopia ends with the steps of the scaffold, the endless…

— Grant Morrison

“I dreamed about the future because that's what people persuade you to do when you're a kid, but that's the biggest lie…

— Tammara Webber

“If grass grows and withers, it can only mean that it is part of a greater thing, which is even more real;…

— G.K. Chesterton

I think cynicism often disguises itself as humour.

— Michka Assayas