Cynicism Quote by Grant Morrison

“Someone said that revolutions are begun by idealists and ended by the scoundrels who destroy the idealists.”

— Anatoli Rybakov

“Every individual with “ideals” is a potential murderer.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“The one will triumph who first died for the victims then also for the executioners, and in so doing revealed a new righteousness which…

— Jürgen Moltmann

“We have just said that the scaffold is the only edifice which revolutions do not demolish. It is rare indeed that revolutions are temperate…

— Victor Hugo

“Instead of proclaiming the ideals, they educe what experience teaches, what the experience of all the centuries has taught, that the millions get no…

— Søren Kierkegaard

“We live in a world where one needs to choose - to be the victim or the executioner, and nothing else.”

— Albert Camus

“For by giving it some hard thought, by considering the whole thing calmly, I could see that the trouble with the guillotine was that…

— Albert Camus

“sight. In his essay On The Sublime, Edmund Burke observes, "Represent the most sublime and affecting tragedy we have...and when you have collected your…

— Daniel Myerson

“They dream of a world in which their simple and radical way of experiencing and perceiving reality would dominate; [35] where they would, of…

— Andrzej Lobaczewski

“If the people must be ever fearful of death, then there will always be an executioner.”

— Lao Tzu

“The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.”

— Sir Walter Raleigh

“a call for revolution wrapped in the clothing of rationality.”

— Veronica Roth