Anarchist Quote by Henry Adams

I never like to use those terms [like pessimistic].

— Frances Moore Lappé

To describe someone as a pessimist is to issue an insult, whereas to be labelled an optimist is to get a pat on the…

— David Olusoga

“Pessimistic" is a word for "realistic" that optimists use to make themselves feel better (about their unrealisticness).”

— Claire

Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.

— Upton Sinclair

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath…

— James A. Baldwin

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

— George Bernard Shaw

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

— Don Marquis

“Until recently, attempts to resolve the contradictions created by urbanization, centralization, bureaucratic growth and statification were viewed as a vain counterdrift to "progress"—a counterdrift…

— Murray Bookchin

“Pessimism n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his…

— Ambrose Bierce

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

— Margaret Atwood

Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

— Francis Parker Yockey