We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Whenever a woman begins to talk of anything, she is talking to, of, or at a man.” — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Cynicism is the curse of the West. In India, we still have faith.” — Corban Addison Copy Share Image
“If you're not ready for the consequences, then don't stir up shit in the first place.” — Wataru Watari Copy Share Image
I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking. — Graham Coxon Copy Share Image
“I had no trouble with his readiness to change his attitude. I despise the oppression of social hierarchies and seniority-based systems, unless… — Wataru Watari Copy Share Image
I hate to create cynicism about politicians. We just need to invade. Regular people need to run for office and keep their… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
I hate cynicism. I wipe it from me. I don't like cynical people. I don't like cynical movies. Cynicism is very easy.… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
“When you succumb to cynicism, darkness, pessimism and sarcasm you are amplifying imbalance and negativity.” — Bryant McGill 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
“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
“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
Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times. — Alex Kingston Copy Share Image
“The real inferiority of women to men is shown by their hate of paederasty , which they regard as unfair competition. Men… — Lawrence Sutin Copy Share Image
“For as fashionable as cynicism always was, the truth was that when it came to basic human responsibility, people rose to the… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
The recommendation by the Arkansas Supreme Court Disciplinary Committee that President Clinton be disbarred is like a tender green shoot of integrity… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure; and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
What happened is that in the middle of my life I went away and in my own sense of hubris, pride, cynicism,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
“To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this: 1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
It is essential to the sanity of mankind that each one should think the other crazy - a condition with which the… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Cynicism, disillusionment, and a dispiriting sense of purposeless has cast a shadow over American society seriously draining it of any language or… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Eating at a new, highly recommended restaurant is like a Very Important Blind Date, a contract with uncertainty you enter into with… — Stuart Stevens Copy Share Image
“More and more, I felt that I was meeting people like Lee who didn't at all seem part of this modern world… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“Their cynicism was complete and terrible: details, like the lying signs outside the underground chambers of the crematoriums that announced in seven… — Miklós Nyiszli Copy Share Image
I think that for those of us who come from oppressed backgrounds and who do our work in marginalized communities, recovering our… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“But if all maximizing models are really arguing is that “people will always seek to maximize something,” then they obviously can’t predict… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall, and do not daub with sables and glooms in your conversation. Don't be a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room others by leaving the room.… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
“Dantes had entered the Chateau d’If with the round, open, smiling face of a young and happy man, with whom the early… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
![“To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this: 1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or absolutely wrong, as determined by reason. 2. According to my reasoning, I am absolutely right. 3. Charity is immoral. 4. Pay for your own fucking schools.” quote by Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/454/matt-taibbi-2257_ayn-rand_to-sum-it-all-up-the-ayn-rand-belief-sys_734389.jpg)
