Cynicism Quote by Mason Cooley

Cynicism has its own zealots.

— Mason Cooley

Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they…

— Walter Becker

Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems.

— Cory Booker

"Cynic" is a word invented by optimists to put down realists.

— Stefano Benni

The cynicism doesn't come across in the final; it can be taken as a very sincere plea for someone to not go away.

— Babatunde Adebimpe

Cynicism is the humour of hatred.

— Herbert Beerbohm

It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.

— Jeremy Paxman

"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…

— Kenny Smith

In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style.

— Criss Jami

In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.

— Daniel Goleman

Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.

— Henry Rollins

Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing doctrine that…

— James E. Faust