A lot of these activists weren’t even registered voters.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

If you’re always worried about crushing the ants beneath you… you won’t be able to walk.

I am discovering that I can live far better without cynicism than I can without trust.

Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster.

Cynicism is easy. Mimicry is easy. Optimistic contrarians are the rarest breed.

What good is ye world when ye canst not livest hither.

Cynicism is one of the terrible obstacles to progress.

The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.

Cynicism was a one-way path, and once taken the way back was lost forever.

Try persuading the world not to cut its throat for half a decade or more…and it’ll begin to dawn on you that even your behavior’s part of its plan.

Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out.

A politician is a politician whether he’s wearing a suit or a funny hat.

I don’t “lol”. I tried it once but it just didn’t agree with me.

I’m getting old, thought Eileen Calder. Old and worn out and cynical. And being cynical is a lot worse than being old or worn out.

The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.

cynicism springs from disappointments in love.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.

Cynicism: The intellectual cripple’s substitute for intelligence

We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.

Why is it that with women, some kink, some vulnerability of the sex, is always presumed to lie at the heart of things- as if they have no other life, no relevance as important as...

Numbness and cynicism, I suspect, are more often the products of frustrated compassion than of evil intentions.

Ce sper eu e sa fac de ras lumea literara. Sa rad pe cat pot de netrebnicii astia lingusitori, adunati ca intr-un musuroi, care se pupa-n fund unul pe altul si isi ling ranile in...

…their hearts had still not been hardened with the inevitable cynicism that familiarity and experience breed. 

He who is a useful keeper of anything is also a better thief.

All men have a natural fear of making a mistake–by believing too well of a person. However, the error of believing too ill of a person is perhaps not feared, at least not in the...

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.

Pride is born as a mountaintop on a valley, but dies as an abyss in which it is too deep and too dark to see the better.

Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?

Cynicism is no more mature than naïveté. You’re no more mature, just more burned.

There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.

…a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed…

I’m not into this whole “move with the times” thing. I reckon we should just decide on a year and stick with it.

We shall, as we ripen in grace, have greater sweetness towards our fellow Christians. Bitter-spirited Christians may know a great deal, but they are immature. Those who are quick to censure may be very acute...

…God created the world in six days. On the seventh day, he rested. On the eighth day, he started getting complaints. And it hasn’t stopped since.

motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

Those who refuse to drink are always thirsty.

Only three things are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since we can do nothing with the first two, we must do what we can with the third.

They were Archer’s second set of children an d paragons of contemporary teenage cynicism. They enjoyed setting fire to the tails of tender thoughts.

Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.

When young people are cynical, and snarky, they shoot down their own future. When you keep saying “No,” all that’s left is what other people said “Yes” to before you were born. Really, “No” is...

Whenever a woman begins to talk of anything, she is talking to, of, or at a man.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not money, I am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and...

A thousand years from now nobody is going to know that you or I ever lived. The cynic is right, but lazy. He says ‘You live, you die and nothing you do will ever make...

The Cynics emphasized that true happiness is not found in external advantages such as material luxury, political power, or good health. True happiness lies in not being dependent on such random and fleeting things. And...

The attraction of cynicism was that it so often put you in the right, as if being right led directly to happiness.

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It’s unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don’t have to try. —in Good Housekeeping

This time once again it has been my chief aim to make no sacrifice to an appearance of being simple, complete or rounded off, not to disguise problems and not to deny the existence of...

The sun?” Goldman said in an unguarded moment. “I hear they’ve shot it.