Cynical Quotes

People can get blinded by a sense of being comfortable or feeling secure, but that's quite a cynical point of view.

I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up.

In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible -- such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?

For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they're not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody's hand. And that's real to me.

I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel.

There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth.

The Who is now a brand, not a band; but it is a brand that is upheld by its audience, not an industry or a cynical moneymaking machine.

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

My friends are so cynical, they refuse to keep the faith.

The good news is hopeful doesn't mean dumb. The bad news is cynical doesn't mean smart.

Render any politician down and there's enough fat to fry an egg.

I felt wise and cynical as all hell.

The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.

I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side.

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

If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.

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

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

Powerful people doing bad things LIKE cynical, despairing citizens.

Cynics about government find much to be cynical about.

As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate.

An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.

Justice is the sanction of established injustice.

I've always liked to be a meat and potatoes kind of actor who doesn't believe in any of the highfalutin stuff about acting, so I tend to be a little bit more cynical.

You know, it's fashionable right now for people to be cynical. We go in cycles like this and right now a lot of people are saying, 'Oh, America is doing terribly' and 'What are we going to do?'

Don't get cynical. Don't ever think you can't make a difference.

It's very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.

Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn't even doing the singing. I'm a bit cynical about this [music] business.

'Peace' is when nobody's shooting. A 'just peace' is when our side gets what it wants.

It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.

You made one mistake. You married me.

Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.

I would have never thought in a million years that I would appeal to an Avril fan. But I'm glad that I do because a lot of them aren't jaded or cynical.

I'm a worrier. In the UK, if I'm known for anything, it's sort of for being cynical.

Juliana's a year older than me, but she sometimes seems younger - mostly because she's the opposite of cynical and I'm the opposite of the opposite of cynical.

Don't be cynical; it leads nowhere. If you work hard, and are kind, amazing things will happen to you.

Cynicism is something that is part of the media production of a certain type of subjectivity or consciousness that is passive and disempowered, cynical, fatalistic, pessimistic.

I think regular Iowans are cynical of this whole idea of corporate welfare, with the biggest awards going to the most profitable companies. It doesn't make sense.

Obama's position on marriage is brazenly cynical.

I will never be cynical again about people.

I could never be cynical, not that I think there's anything wrong with cynicism. I think it can be quite funny at times. But I just feel so grateful to be alive.

I'm a very jaded and cynical person.

I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S.

If I never saw another airport again, I'd be happy!

...Sometimes I suspect that what had really happened was that we became more resigned, more cynical, raised our pain thresholds as we lowered our expectations. All in all, settled for less.

I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.

Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.

I've found myself getting more and more cynical about what's happening to the planet - it makes me furious.