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I could never be cynical, not that I think there's anything wrong with cynicism. I think it can be quite funny at times. But I… — Drew Barrymore
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. What's a whole… — Jim Henson
The cynic thinks that he is being practical and that the hopeful person is not. It is actually the other way around. Cynicism is paralyzing,… — Charles Eisenstein
I have to admit that one of the saddest things I see in ministry is a woman who belittles her husband. Even if he has… — Stu Weber
...for the contingent out there who sneer at heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman and Captain America, those icons who still, at their core, represent… — Greg Rucka
Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties. — Jamie Whyte
A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye. — Carolyn Wells
America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality… — Alistair Cooke
HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius.… — Rob Brezsny
I suppose I'd had, by the standards of that pre-permissive time, a good deal of sex for my age. Girls, or a certain kind of… — John Fowles
You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to. — Philip K. Dick
"Cynicism," like "heresy" and "heterodoxy" and "atheism" and "agnosticism" and "paganism" and "heathenism," is above all else a way for organized orthodoxy's caste of official… — Kenny Smith
I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking. — Graham Coxon
I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism… — Carl Barks
The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them. — Marianne Moore
A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the… — George Jean Nathan
Cynicism is reality with an alternate spelling. — Woody Allen
Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized. — Mark Twain
Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of… — Gore Vidal
There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a… — Charles Krauthammer
The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged. — Marya Mannes
The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks… — Stephen Jay Gould
I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice. — Mason Cooley

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