Cynicism is the last refuge of those who don't want to do the work of creating a better society. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall. — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Life is too short to be cynical, So smile dare to believe, and leave the door open for the MAGIC.. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Say as little as possible, hope some of the undecideds like your teeth better than the other guy’s—that’s usually the way this… — Matt Taibbi 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
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
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
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
Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still… — James Gould Cozzens Copy Share Image
Big Brother is not the only danger facing the country. Another is the rising tide of distrust, the corrosive spread of cynicism,… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is… — Alan Thicke Copy Share Image
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...It really is worth fighting for, risking… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Now, there's this about cynicism, Sergeant. It's the universe's most supine moral position. Real comfortable. If nothing can be done, then you're… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“I believe that you are really a very good husband but that you are thoroughly ashamed of your own virtues. You are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether… — Russell Lynes 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
“Uncouth, clannish, lumbering about the confines of Space and Time with a puzzled expression on his face and a handful of things… — M. John Harrison 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
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil. — Vachel Lindsay Copy Share Image
“Cynicism is what happens when skepticism is given too much latitude.” — Chris Brady Copy Share Image
I am discovering that I can live far better without cynicism than I can without trust. — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
“Haven’t you heard of privacy, or were you raised by a tribe of hedonistic Vikings?” — Wade Kelly Copy Share Image
The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
It is the cynicism that kills all the joy. I'm not that kind of a guy. I look at the glass half-full. — Ravi Shastri Copy Share Image
“cynicism is the only reasonable response to the antics of humanity.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I think this goes more to the idea of 'relentless irony' than 'divine providence.” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
