Cynical Quotes
Cynical Quote of the day
An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.
What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.
We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.
Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.
Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that.
All romantics meet the same fate some day. Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.
Of late, attempts have been made in the USA - at a high level and in a rather cynical form - to play the "Chinese card" against the USSR. This is a shortsighted and dangerous policy.
Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason.
I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilization - you can't just swallow it whole.
Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.
I’m actually trying to make sense of the world. There’s nothing cynical or absurd in what I do.
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.
There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.
we know that our world is corrupt and diseased but we're tired of being cynical and feeling helpless. What the hell, tilt at a windmill.
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.