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Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.
— Henry Rollins
Amory: I love you.Rosalind: I love you- now. — F Scott Fitzgerald
As the nation at last confronts global warming, it is no time for denial, greed, cynicism or pessimism.
— Bernie Sanders
Without cynicism and cursing, what will I say to people?
— Kevin Roose
It is our birthright to uncover the soul - to remove the layers of fear or shame or apathy or cynicism that conceal it.
— Elizabeth Lesser
Cynicism leads to despair, while fixating on the efforts that seemed to work in the past makes an idol out of spiritual states.
— Monks Of New Skete
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
— H.G.Wells
In rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism.
— Catherine Marshall
The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism.
— Abraham Maslow
Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.
— Milan Kundera
I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.
— Patricia Ireland
Cynicism is the calling card of unhappy people.
— Iimani David
Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.
— Michael Crichton
Our choice is between cynicism and hope.
— Jim Wallis
It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.
— Jacques Barzun
Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.
— Cameron Crowe
Cynicism can blind one to subtler virtues
— David Mitchell
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
— George Meredith
Don't confuse my point of view with cynicism. The real cynics are the ones who tell you that everything's gonna be all right.
— George Carlin
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
— W. Somerset Maugham
An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.
— Elbert Hubbard
He see's the world the way cynics do; Not looking for false Hope.
— Meredith Duran
The attraction of cynicism was that it so often put you in the right, as if being right led directly to happiness.
— Richard Russo
He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly.
— Flannery O'Connor
I have a healthy cynicism, but not anger.
— Sheryl Crow
I think cynicism often disguises itself as humour.
— Michka Assayas
Baseball, of all sports, and maybe of all human endeavors, has no room for cynicism.
— Howard Frank Mosher
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Sometimes I think books are the only friends worth having.
— Susie Derkins
I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.
— Sarah McLachlan
Wall Street has blanketed America in a miasma of cynicism, and much of it is directed against Wall Street. The Street has only itself to blame.
— Robert B. Reich
Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money. (64)
— Mary Doria Russell
Cynicism. I liked that in a man.
— Josh Lanyon
I sometimes think that 'friend' is just a word I use for all the people I haven't murdered yet.
— Scott Lynch
Just know that it is impossible to feel joy while you are feeling cynicism. It is like wearing tight shoes and trying to mambo.
— Suzanne Finnamore
Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit.
— Danny Wallace
The everyday was king. And the courtiers were popularization, superficiality, doubt, cynicism. The century was exhausted.
— Chaim Potok
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
— Lillian Hellman
Like a garish conch shell, my cynicism protected me from disappointment, or so I believed, so I expected the worst and smirked when I found it.
— Rachel Held Evans
We weep when we are born, not when we die!
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.
— Jess C. Scott
A beardless cynic is the shame of nature.
— John Milton
Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out.
— Leonid Andreyev
Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.
— Paul Horgan
We are reformers in the spring, but iin autumn we stand by the old. Ralph Waldo Emerson
— Ron Suskind
An idea? An idea won't get you nothing but another idea. You need money, cash, to make anything happen in this doggone world.
— Nathan McCall
A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.
— Scott Dikkers
Birth, n.: The first and direst of all disasters.
— Ambrose Bierce
The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all
— Tracy Kidder
It doesn't matter if justice is on your side. You have to depict your position as just.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.
— Thomas Hardy
Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
— Diogenes Of Sinope
Your cynicism is simply a pose.
— Oscar Wilde
The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority
— Yukio Mishima
I'm actually equal parts cynicism and apathy. I'm always willing to believe the worst as long as it doesn't take too much effort.
— Dennis Miller
It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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.
— Elton Trueblood
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
— Twyla Tharp
Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics.
— Thomas Sowell
Cynicism's always a pose - always.
— Grace S. Richmond
Sarcasm is a manifestation of anger, and anger can make you the puppet of your opponents.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
When I was a young reporter, the great vice among journalists was whiskey. Today, it's cynicism.
— Paul Simon
Cynicism always enchanted me by producing a delicious feeling of self-assurance and of being in league with myself
— Francoise Sagan
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
— Kenneth Clark
As our self-interests differ, so do our feelings.
— Pierre Corneille
I think moral outrage is born not of anger but of love. It comes from the highest in us, not from a low-level sense of anger or cynicism.
— Marianne Williamson
Numbness and cynicism, I suspect, are more often the products of frustrated compassion than of evil intentions.
— David Hilfiker
My whole life has been about confronting cynicism.
— Cory Booker
Cynicism is just an excuse for not helping.
— Marianne Williamson
A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.
— Ambrose Bierce
You mistake my jealousy for good old-fashioned cynicism.
— Nicole Williams
