Cynicism Quotes · Page 17

Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going…

— Alex Steffen

Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems.

— Cory Booker

I enjoy watching children interact with the world, the way they engage their environment without any filters, learned models, or cynicism.

— Keith Murray

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

I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there’s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

— David Biespiel

We must renew democracy itself. We have to fight cynicism and inertia and restore faith in the advancement of our country.

— Paul Wellstone

“I'm a nothing person. I don't affiliate myself with any kind of label [..] The truly stalwart don't run with a group.…

— Wataru Watari

Come to me and show me a small cancer and I'll tell you you've got a small cancer that should be cut…

— Gore Vidal

Its [Dreams from My Father] also a reflection about how we might start a better conversation in our democracy about how to…

— Barack Obama

The cynic thinks that he is being practical and that the hopeful person is not. It is actually the other way around.…

— Charles Eisenstein

I know it's easier to portray a world filled with cynicism and anger, where problems are solved with violence...It's an easy out.…

— Jim Henson

I think there's a weapon of cynicism to say, 'Protest doesn't work. Organizing doesn't work. Y'all are a bunch of hippies. You…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Cynicism and defensiveness are two things constantly levelled at me. Look, I've got time for people, I'm good mannered. I usually find…

— Nick Cave

This is our moment...while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us…

— Barack Obama

In the press grandstand where I watched Discovery rise against the cloudless sky, the media hit the abort button on cynicism. The…

— Jonathan Alter

“I didn’t mean to suggest there was anything wrong with Victor when we were in the garage,” he started in a growl…

— Taylor Longford

Instead of giving in to cynicism and division, let's move forward with the confidence and optimism and unity that define us as…

— Barack Obama

I'm sure there's some sort of cynicism or fatalism in Ireland and England. We are fatalistic here, and sometimes we need to…

— Brian Gleeson

As consumers we are incredibly discerning, we sense where has been great care in the design, and when there is cynicism and…

— Jonathan Ive

The idea of The Boy Vs. The Cynic is the tension between the wide-eyed optimism in youthfulness where you think nothing can…

— John Reuben Zappin

“The increasingly cynical court thought Arthur, "hypocritical, as all decent men must be if you assume decency cannot exist.”

— T.H. White

“...God created the world in six days. On the seventh day, he rested. On the eighth day, he started getting complaints. And…

— James Scott Bell

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

— Stromae

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

— Vera Farmiga

Trying to prove yourself to cynics is an absolute waste of your time. Making time with people who care about you is…

— Anonymous

“A certain cynicism, born of the life she has led; a streak of strange wisdom; the wistfulness behind the gaiety; sometimes fear;…

— Georgette Heyer

I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism.

— Serj Tankian

If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

— George W. Bush

“Perhaps espousing views one doesn't actually hold is a core tenet of normiedom. In sum, the way of the normie is founded…

— Wataru Watari

Despite the unrivaled empirical success of quantum theory, the very suggestion that it may be literally true as a description of nature…

— David Deutsch

For all the cynicism that the world contains, people are a little more open to those things that maybe are to do…

— Kenneth Branagh

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life.…

— Shawn Colvin

The cynics were watchdogs terrifying malefactors. They tried to expose falseness and conceit. That's why their name is still spoken with a…

— Petr Skrabanek

We have to use our discontentment to engage rather than disengage - our hope has to be more powerful than our cynicism.

— Shane Claiborne

[The atheist believes] a world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a…

— Pope Benedict XVI

If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to…

— Emilio Estevez

“It's when the 'international community' expresses 'concern' about your 'situation' that your situation is well and truly fucked.”

— Michael D. Weiss

When anybody goes to L.A. from London, there's always this slight sense of, 'What are you doing? Who do you think you…

— Ed Weeks

“But I was naturally suspicious; it comes from working too closely with the police for too long. Cynicism is so contagious.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I'm actually equal parts cynicism and apathy. I'm always willing to believe the worst as long as it doesn't take too much…

— Dennis Miller