Cynics Quotes
68 quotes by 57 authors
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Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.
— Tony Blair
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Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them…
— Jeff Bridges
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The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they deceive mankind. Whatever…
— Adolf Hitler
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War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.
— Chris Hedges
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Courage has you say in a defiant spirit you can take everything from me, you could cut me deep, you could render me in shame…
— Cory Booker
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Silence your critics. Ignore your haters. Delete your cynics.
— Robin Sharma
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To all the cynics, I'm sorry for you, ... I'm sorry you can't believe in miracles. This is a great sporting event and hard work…
— Lance Armstrong
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What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of…
— Albert Einstein
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I have a very low regard for cynics. I think it's the beginning of dying.
— Robert Redford
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I hear loads of cynics saying that I'll never be able to change anything. They say that junk food marketing and the ready availability of…
— Jamie Oliver
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I believe that history is not made by cynics; it is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us be these people.
— Tzipi Livni
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Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.
— Peter Senge
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Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.
— Michael Ignatieff
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Scratch the surface of any cynic, and you will find a wounded idealist underneath. Because of previous pain or disappointment, cynics make their conclusions about…
— John Ortberg
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The future will not belong to those who sit on the sidelines. The future will not belong to the cynics. The future belongs to those…
— Paul Wellstone
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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.
— Roy Hattersley
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Cynics are all moralists, and merciless too.
— Indro Montanelli
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Romantics might like to think of themselves as being composed of stardust. Cynics might prefer to think of themselves as nuclear waste.
— Simon Singh
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The cynics were watchdogs terrifying malefactors. They tried to expose falseness and conceit. That's why their name is still spoken with a snarl.
— Petr Skrabanek
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Some critics will say Coca-Cola made a marketing mistake. Some cynics will say that we planned the whole thing. The truth is we are not…
— Donald Keough
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