“Constantly exposing yourself to popular culture and the mass media will ultimately shape your reality tunnel in ways that are not necessarily… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Emotional and psychological pain were to become, perhaps, the most powerful force in molding the course of my life. For some people,… — Joseph Girzone Copy Share Image
If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
“A moral cynicism was sapping the strength of our society, half-lies were not only condoned, but regarded as smart. Many had remained… — Abie Abraham Copy Share Image
Political parties do not want to win solely for the sake of winning; they want to win so that their coalition can… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
There is message to the community that a non-governmental process is underway to bring about social change, it's a public one, and… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The bleakness of what faces us is difficult to swallow. As long as we engage in happy platitudes and a false kind… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Being skeptical is part of my job, to question every amazing achievement. That's always there. But I am also capable of turning… — Travis Tygart Copy Share Image
The cynic makes fun of all earnestness; he makes fun of everything and everyone who feels that something can be done. .… — George Edgar Vincent Copy Share Image
“Behind his careful political flippancy and cynicism one might also detect a certain careless sincerity, which would probably in the long run… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
“The genius of cynicism is that it is a voice in your ear it does not usually hang around long enough to… — Dick Keyes Copy Share Image
..I think there is less cynicism about human rights than there was. The work we are doing is part of the overall… — Martin Ennals Copy Share Image
What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions… — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
I have to admit that one of the saddest things I see in ministry is a woman who belittles her husband. Even… — Stu Weber Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as particularly earnest. I have long bouts of cynicism and skepticism. So much of my early life… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
When I'm cynical, I seek out bands that are fully participating and trying to push something forward. Or I can just start… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“The Cynics emphasized that true happiness is not found in external advantages such as material luxury, political power, or good health. True… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon,… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
The relationship between truth and a newspaper is like the relationship between the color green and the number seven. Occasionally you will… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The idea that women are actually getting some jobs - whoopee. I can't say that I celebrate it without a hint of… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
A deep cynicism is taking hold of the country, with more and more Americans convinced that big money calls the shots in… — John Sarbanes Copy Share Image
“That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested… — Mike Carey 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
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
Its [Dreams from My Father] also a reflection about how we might start a better conversation in our democracy about how to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Whoever we may be, whatever our immediate interest, however much we carry baggage from our past, however much we have been caught… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
I think despair and cynicism are two different things. On the flip side of hope is despair. Belief and doubt are the… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
A learned County Court judge in a book of memoirs recently said that the overwhelming amount of his time on the bench… — 1st Baron Greene Wilfred Greene Copy Share Image
“Now the situation could be resolved, and we could put this behind us -- both the awkward misunderstandings and the misguided attempts… — Wataru Watari Copy Share Image
In the press grandstand where I watched Discovery rise against the cloudless sky, the media hit the abort button on cynicism. The… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The cynic thinks that he is being practical and that the hopeful person is not. It is actually the other way around.… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image