Cynicism often draws correct conclusions, but nobody could live by its lights. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
“Divide and rule, weaken and conquer, love and enslave, these are three tenets of politics” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism. — Max Lucado 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
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
“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
“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
Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times. — Alex Kingston Copy Share Image
“There was something in her eyes that made me trust her. Maybe it was because they held the same cynicism, the same… — Melika Dannese Lux Copy Share Image
“Humans are moving into a new phase, one based on the knowledge that talking about their feelings has never got them anywhere.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Without the confidence to know our democracy is functioning properly, we risk more disillusionment, more cynicism, and even more public apathy toward… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
Millions of small changes can be done, and through that, there can be a bigger impact because anybody can talk to another… — Eugene Hutz 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
“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
Each of us must work to become a hardheaded realist, or else we risk wasting our time and energy on pursuing impossible… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. But I understand the word "cynic"… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The artist who really loves people loves them so well the way they are he sees no need to disguise their characteristics-he… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
Can-do Americans courageously go about their duty in Iraq - mostly unafraid that a culture of 2,000 years, the reality of geography,… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down. — Collis Potter Huntington Copy Share Image
“There are those who always think the worst of people. That's because they are the worst of people.” — Marsha Hinds Copy Share Image
“He see's the world the way cynics do; Not looking for false Hope.” — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
The only way to do my job without optimism would be as a cynic, and that's not my nature. — Jon Snow Copy Share Image
“We began in error, so obviously the ensuing events left us in error, too.” — Wataru Watari Copy Share Image
Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom. — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I know life is not rainbows and butterflies, but I’d rather die delusional than being a mature cynic.” — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
“It's not a shame to trust another, shame is to grow cynical and bitter.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
