Cynicism Quote by Ben Shapiro Download Open image “Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.” — Ben Shapiro ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cynicism Distrust Government Pessimism Politics Realism
No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting. — George Will Copy Share Image
Our form of government depends on a mutual bond of trust between the people and their government. But people have become cynical about their… — Sonny Perdue Copy Share Image
To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to trust in… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
You should always be questioning your government, but do not become cynical. — Pete Visclosky Copy Share Image
Do not trust governments more than governments trust their own people. — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
No government can be trusted, that does not trust its own people with military-style arms of greater weight and power than those possessed by… — Vin Suprynowicz Copy Share Image
Trust is a two way street. If your government does not trust you, how can you trust your government? — Bruce Montague Copy Share Image
To the ordinary guy, all this is a bunch of gobbledygook. But out of the gobbledygook comes a very clear thing: you can't trust… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is… — Phil Zimmermann Copy Share Image
How do you trust a government whose people are proved to be untrustworthy? — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
No number of repairs will be able to fix Obamacare. The website is the least of Americans' worries. — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others. — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
Let's assume for the moment that the logic behind Presidents Day is actually sound for certain presidents. Why not have a separate holiday for… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
“No wonder the left seeks to avoid political debate at all costs. Why bother? Members of the left are not interested in having a… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
“from nonprofit organizations to push Obamacare—the same organizations responsible for directly implementing Obamacare and therefore subject to HHS oversight. • At virtually the same time,… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
Few Americans have ever met their Congresspeople. They don't see them at the grocery store; they don't meet them at the bowling alley. They're… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
If Republicans triumph in 2014, it will undoubtedly be as a result of Obamacare. In 2010, Republicans soared to historic victory because the much-maligned… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
In Britain, where the social safety net is more like a social swaddling cloth, crime rates other than murder are significantly higher than in… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
When Americans are faced with the prospect that they can never earn their way to wealth, they have two choices: to rebel against the… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
The Muslim world just doesn't believe that skin color is all that important. Obama may be half-black, but he's still all-Western, according to them. It doesn't matter whether you're black, white or green - if you're not a devotee of Muhammad, you don't matter. — Ben Shapiro Copy Share
Scepticism and cynicism about politics is so great that one of the best counters to it is what you can do at a local… — Ed Miliband Copy Share Image
“Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster.” — Noelle Oxenhandler Copy Share Image
There's a distinct unease about Americans when they are outside the United States. I can't say quite what it is, but they are easily… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
If you're going to reach for it, reach all the way for it. Albums like 'Purple Rain' and 'Thriller' and those kind of records,… — Dave Sitek Copy Share Image
There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the age and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people; they disliked working for others and they seemed to resent taking orders. On the whole, directors were treated absurdly well, and workers badly, and most industries were weakened by class suspicion and false economies and cynicism. But the… — Paul Theroux Copy Share
Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I think growing up in Indiana prepares anyone for a life in comedy. I do feel like there is a certain kind of self-effacing… — Jim Gaffigan 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 bastard any… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad. Technicians cannot master revolutions; every great achievement was an idea before it became a reality. Cathedrals cannot be built by those who are paralyzed by doubt or consumed by cynicism. If a society loses the capacity for great… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share
What's important is how we use our time on this earth, not how conspicuously we give our money away. What's important is the energy… — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
