Cynicism Quote by Jerry Brown

“Political cynicism, disengagement, democratic decadence — call it what you will — is too often an excuse for physical and intellectual laziness.”

— Matthew Flinders

Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result…

— Janice Rogers Brown

When elections are not democratic, even the most populist discussions become superficial, disconnected from real power; they are theatre.

— Zephyr Teachout

The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.

— Lord Hailsham

Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the…

— Gore Vidal

Some vested interests have an inclination to tarnish the image of those in politics and there have been occasions when some people have fallen…

— Pinarayi Vijayan

Cynicism, disillusionment, and a dispiriting sense of purposeless has cast a shadow over American society seriously draining it of any language or vision that…

— Henry Giroux

Demoralized people are disinterested in the truth and in humanity. They are starved for superficial entertainment or any demagoguery that would help them escape…

— Rev Richard Skaff

I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.

— Zephyr Teachout

Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public…

— Rosa Luxemburg

If you believe in democracy, than you can't trash it by being cynical about the people who do democracy: the politicians.

— Chrystia Freeland

People are increasingly beginning to feel that democracy itself is being destroyed by this latest phase of globalization and that politics doesn't matter because…

— Tariq Ali