We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“You know that inside every cynic, there’s just a very disappointed idealist?” — Roe Horvat Copy Share Image
“Whenever a woman begins to talk of anything, she is talking to, of, or at a man.” — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Monday. Given that it means "day of the moon," you'd think there'd be more butts involved.” — Wataru Watari Copy Share Image
Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it. — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
The thing that worries me more than anything else is losing faith in the capacity of politics to change things. I don't… — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
“Saturday is the mightiest day of the week. It's unshakably, overwhelmingly superior. Not only is it a day off of school, the… — Wataru Watari Copy Share Image
Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The way people treat each other in society is cruel but in retrospect history shows the cynicism is evident in all. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
It is a testament to our naïveté about culture that we think that we can change it by simply declaring new values.… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
Cynicism is the largest obstacle to social change. Cynicism is dangerous because people throw up their hands and say, "Well it's not… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
We have to recognize we've got some big problems on race, just like we got still big problems on crime, just like… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When people treat corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You… — Edward Brooke Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
You wouldn't know it, from some of the things I've said over the years, but I like people... I do... I like… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“For a year, Johnny lived the new, brutal truth that he was on his own. But that's the way it was. What… — John Hart Copy Share Image
What happened is that in the middle of my life I went away and in my own sense of hubris, pride, cynicism,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
“To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this: 1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
It is essential to the sanity of mankind that each one should think the other crazy - a condition with which the… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The end of an age is always a time of turmoil, war, economic catastrophe, cynicism, lawlessness and distress. But it is also… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
People confuse the word cynicism with the word skepticism. One is “you’re not gonna pay attention to anything, think everything’s screwed up,… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
“Curmudgeons speak up because they have to, because it’s become critically important for them to tell the truth as they see it.… — Lionel Fisher Copy Share Image
If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them.… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Here is the mistake of the cut-and-dried man of culture. He goes about with the secret of having learned to appreciate the… — Richard Holt Hutton Copy Share Image
Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this: 1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or absolutely wrong, as determined by reason. 2. According to my reasoning, I am absolutely right. 3. Charity is immoral. 4. Pay for your own fucking schools.” quote by Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/454/matt-taibbi-2257_ayn-rand_to-sum-it-all-up-the-ayn-rand-belief-sys_734389.jpg)
