Pessimism Quote by Timothy Snyder

“It is your ability to discern facts that makes you an individual, and our collective trust in common knowledge that makes us a society.…

— Timothy Snyder

“Generic cynicism makes us feel hip and alternative even as we slip along with our fellow citizens into a morass of indifference.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Cynicism places the cynic at the center seat of judgement with the self appointed authority to criticize and condemn. ”

— Jayce O'Neal

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is…

— Russell Lynes

“Although most people never overcome the habit of berating the world for their difficulties, those who are too weak to make a stand against…

— Max Horkheimer

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 may seem a mild transgression, but it is a patient predator that suffocates hope, slowly, over many years,”

— Rachel Held Evans

Cynicism is the last refuge of those who don't want to do the work of creating a better society.

— Robert Reich

“Your cynicism lies in your willing abuse of others to consolidate your superiority over them. My cynicism is in regard to humanity’s wilful blindness…

— Steven Erikson

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

— Stefano Benni

“A cynic once said that the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.”

— Dean Koontz

Cynicism is intellectual treason.

— Norman Cousins