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

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

It naturally raises cynicism when you have so many 5-4 decisions from our Supreme Court and 4-3 decisions out of the Florida Supreme Court and that is not healthy, … But our republic will survive.

Maybe it’s the fact the most of the arts here are produced by world-weary and sophisticated older people and then consumed by younger people who not only consume art but study it for clues on...

In de loop van de vijf, zes jaar dat ik in Rusland verbleef, ben ik een paar keer door diverse organisaties en individuen gedood dan wel doodverklaard.Teruggekeerd naar het vaderland kwam ik erachter dat ik...

Curmudgeons speak up because they have to, because it’s become critically important for them to tell the truth as they see it. Telling the truth is as natural to them now as when they were...

The fucking world is running out of gas.

It is the curse of the competent―not to be called upon.

A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn’t exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.

When a man over forty tries to repent of the sins of England and to love her enemies, he is attempting something costly; for he was brought up to certain patriotic sentiments which cannot be...

I am a citizen of the world.

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

Gold was not sure of many things, but he was definite about one: for every successful person he knew, he could name at least two others of greater ability, better, and higher intelligence who, by...

I am not capable of true friendship. One of the two friends is always the slave of the other, although, often, neither of the two admits this to himself.

Morality, Sir, is the monologue of the unexcited and the unexcitable, the revenge of the unsuccessful, the punishment of those who tried and failed, or who never had the courage to try at all.

Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his dark monarchy. They are his Court, and in his name they defraud and govern, enrich themselves and perpetuate...

Sometimes I think books are the only friends worth having.

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...

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

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.