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.

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.

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

It doesn’t matter if justice is on your side. You have to depict your position as just.

You wouldn’t know it, from some of the things I’ve said over the years, but I like people… I do… I like people, but I like them in short bursts. I don’t like people for...

But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.

He said cynicism’s self-protection, a defense mechanism used by cowards who give up on love because they’re afraid love’s given up on them.

But I was naturally suspicious; it comes from working too closely with the police for too long. Cynicism is so contagious.

It appeared as if the whole world was one elaborate system, opposed to justice and kindness, and set to making cruelty and pain.

Dantes had entered the Chateau d’If with the round, open, smiling face of a young and happy man, with whom the earlypaths of life have been smooth. and who anticipates a future corresponding with his...

By the time you swear you’re his,Shivering and sighing.And he vows his passion is,Infinite, undying.Lady make note of this –One of you is lying.

I fight cynicism. It`s too easy. It`s really boring. It`s much harder to be positive and see the wonder of everything. Cynicism is a bunch of people who aren`t as talented as other people, knocking...

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

An idea? An idea won’t get you nothing but another idea. You need money, cash, to make anything happen in this doggone world.

Those are pretty rough numbers, the level of cynicism. He just has not communicated with voters in making his case.

I think cynicism often disguises itself as humour.

Everyone else felt the need to assure me that Mother’s death was part of God’s plan. Exactly, I wanted to shout after reading this sentiment half a dozen times— his plan is to kill us...

For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.

At first, one only recognizes particular instances to be worth of critique; critique appears synonymous with rejection, implying deficiency in the object. Over time, one discovers that everything warrants critique. This can produce cynicism: nothing...

Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.

I take in his smooth cheeks, his rough chin and jaw, the developing wrinkles at the corners of his eyes.’We fall in love with somebody who maybe seems like a bad match,’ Tully says, ‘and...

Fukuyama’s thesis that history has climaxed with liberal capitalism may have been widely derided, but it is accepted, even assumed, at the level of the cultural unconscious. It should be remembered, though, that even when...

This was how you wound up in the Inquisition. When you stopped being able to see any difference between Light Ones and Dark Ones. When for you, people weren’t even a flock of sheep, but...

I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You’re wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are...

Cynicism is often seen as a rebellious attitude in western popular culture, but in reality, our cynicism advances the desires of the powerful: cynicism is obedience.

This is some sort of joke, isn’t it?” asks Hunt, staring at the flawless blue sky and distant fields.I cough as lightly and briefly as possible into a handkerchief I have made from a towel...

…[we] has left nothing durable to signalize his stay upon this planet.[we]eventually dies to the honest regret of [our] associates.

To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this:1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or absolutely wrong, as determined by reason.2. According to my reasoning, I am absolutely...

Can you ever “solve” disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no. All you can hope for is to make them manageable enough to allow people to get on with their lives. That’s...

Maybe your empathy’s just a comforting lie, you ever think of that? Maybe you think you know how the other person feels but you’re only feeling yourself, maybe you’re even worst than me. Or maybe...

It’s like this with us baby. We’re coppers and everybody hates our guts….nothing we do is right, not ever. If we get a confession we beat out of a guy, they say, and some shyster...

I lost something magical in the process of growing up – my disillusionment.

All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.

In the Church he (Lincoln) saw people who, though they hated war as much as the editors did, saw with clarity what the moral alternative was.

If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn’t exist.

When everything seems to be lacking integrity, you find it in yourself.

As the special election has dragged on, one of the side effects have been greater voter cynicism about the reasons the governor called the election, … The governor has never been able to sell them...

yes’.

Sarcasm is a manifestation of anger, and anger can make you the puppet of your opponents.

Your every ill-thought, secreted hate, cynical and vicious judgment you carry is meant only for you.

If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you.

Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.

We are literally in the heart of Jesus,” he said.”I thought we were in a church basement, but we are literally in the heart of Jesus.””Someone should tell Jesus,” I said. “I mean, it’s gotta...

He see’s the world the way cynics do; Not looking for false Hope.

I’m not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you have to kill the part of yourself that is naive and romantic and idealistic –...

That’s the hardest thing of all–never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.