I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the two were the same thing — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I have a very low regard for cynics. I think it's the beginning of dying. — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
“Cynicism is a boring and dull old man’s disease people have no business getting when they’re young.” — Erika Lopez Copy Share Image
Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy. — William Greider Copy Share Image
A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times. — Alex Kingston Copy Share Image
“Cynicism and defeated weariness have this in common: They both question the active goodness of God on our behalf.” — Paul E. Miller Copy Share Image
“Our art is cynical and bad-ass and made by people who will not be happy until you join them in the church… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better… — Walter Becker Copy Share Image
I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“Only three things are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since we can do nothing with the first two, we must do… — John Fitzgerald Kennedy Copy Share Image
I'm not going to reduce the choices of Canadians at the ballot box by backroom deals or secret arrangements. I think that's… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
“In spite of his painful encounters with the world and its problems, Solomon does not recommend either pessimism or cynicism. Rather, he… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
Promise me, man. If anything ever happens to me, promise me you'll take care of Angelina. She's something special, Micah. Heart way… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
In government, you are pressed by the security agencies. They come to you with very good information, and they say, 'You need… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Tolerating organized crime promotes the cheap philosophy that everything is a racket. It promotes cynicism among adults. It contributes to the confusion… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“This is some sort of joke, isn't it?" asks Hunt, staring at the flawless blue sky and distant fields. I cough as… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
In my opinion I think there's a difference between skepticism and cynicism; I tend to avoid cynicism because I feel it can… — Tyler Henry Copy Share Image
If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“His cynicism - a veteran's cynicism - was a thing that disturbed him all the time. It seemed to him after the… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
We must face the bitter fact that we have forsaken our great dream of a life of, for, and by the people;… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Golf cannot be played in anger, or in any mood of emotiional excess. Half the golf balls struck by amateurs are hit… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I've done four records now, and your idea of what it's going to be for that record is never what it ends… — Sarah Jaffe Copy Share Image
I suppose I'd had, by the standards of that pre-permissive time, a good deal of sex for my age. Girls, or a… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“As for the belief that humanity is mostly good, Secular humanism, when in that alignment, always presumes the existence of a higher… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“I’m consciously shedding the assumption that a skeptical point of view is the most intellectually credible. Intellect does not function in opposition… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
