Cynical Quotes - Page 25

• Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.

  Immanuel Kant

  Thinking, Names, Giving

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• We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy's side of the front is always propaganda and what is said on our side of the front is truth and righteousness, the cause of humanity and a crusade for peace.

  Walter Lippmann

  War, Humanity, Enemy

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• The biggest mistake of my life was taking a military education.

  Robert E. Lee

  Military, Mistake, Biggest Mistake

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• Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Adultery, Cynicism, Stage

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• We should not view men with a cynical eye, seeing them only as meaningless products of chance, but, on the other hand, we should not go to the opposite extreme of seeing them romantically. To do either is to fail to understand who men really are--creatures made in the image of God but fallen.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Eye, Men, Views

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of spirituality”

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• We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

  Winston Churchill

  Wisdom, Believe, History

  Quoted in Violet Bonham-Carter, Winston Churchill as I Knew Him (1965)

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• I remember laughing when we made those slogans up [about abortion]. . . . We were looking for some sexy, catchy slogans to capture public opinion. They were very cynical slogans then, just as all of these slogans today are very, very cynical.

  Bernard Nathanson

  Sexy, Laughing, Abortion

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• It's strange for me to say it, but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq. I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, 8 million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world. The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Wall, Iraq, People

  "And now the Syrians sniff freedom" by Boris Johnson, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 3, 2005.

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• Nearly half a century has passed since Watson proclaimed his manifesto. Today, apart from a few minor reservations, the vast majority of psychologists, both in this country and in America, still follow his lead. The result, as a cynical onlooker might be tempted to say, is that psychology, having first bargained away its soul and then gone out of its mind, seems now, as it faces an untimely end, to have lost all consciousness.

  Cyril Burt

  Country, America, Psychology

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• At a time when opportunism is everything, when hope seems lost, when everything boils down to a cynical business deal, we must find the courage to dream. To reclaim romance. The romance of believing in justice, in freedom, and in dignity. For everybody.

  Arundhati Roy

  Dream, Believe, Business Deals

  Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.237, Penguin Books India

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• I don't think my spirituality has affected my character. I feel like my character is much more cynical about his beliefs, and I think I have to kind of drop what I believe in order to play him.

  Jason Ritter

  Believe, Character, Thinking

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• Girls who stay true to themselves manage to find some way to respect the parts of themselves that are spiritual. They work for the betterment of the world. Girls who act from their false selves are often cynical about making the world a better place. They have given up hope. Only when they reconnect with the parts of themselves that are alive and true will they again have the energy to take on the culture and fight to save the planet.

  Mary Pipher

  Girl, Spiritual, Fighting

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• Some cynical people think that every activity must revolve around the mighty dollar, and that anyone saying otherwise is just attempting to delude the public. I will probably never be able to convice them that that isn't always the case, but I do have the satisfaction of knowing that I live in a less dingy world than they do.

  John Carmack

  Thinking, Knowing, People

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• Disraeli was now at the height of his fame and popularity. He still had his enemies... But the people as a whole now admired and respected him deeply... His unscrupulous past and cynical opportunism were being largely forgotten or forgiven. He was gradually becoming recognized not only as the prophet of a new Conservatism, at once compassionate at home and positive abroad, but as a great statesmen whom the Queen did well to honour. Power had brought responsibility. By 1878 the transformation in public attitudes towards Disraeli was complete.

  Christopher Hibbert

  Queens, Attitude, Responsibility

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• Wonder is very necessary in life. When we're little kids, we're filled with wonder for the world - it's fascinating and miraculous. A lot of people lose that. They become cynical and jaded, especially in modern day society. Magic renews that wonder.

  Doug Henning

  Kids, People, Magic

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• Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul.

  Nick Denton

  Soul, Relentless, Traffic

  "Media Monkey's diary", www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2012.

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• Cynical? Thats my fascination. I do hateful things, for which people love me, And lovable things for which they hate me. I am a friend of enemies, the enemy of friends; I am admired for my detestability. I am both Poles and the Equator, with no Temperate Zones between.

  Jerome Lawrence

  Hate, People, Enemy

  Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee (2016). “Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century”, p.33, Ballantine Books

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• I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning.

  Jonathan Coe

  Real, Knowing, Ironic

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• We muckraked, not because we hated our world, but because we loved it. We were not hopeless, we were not cynical, we were not bitter.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Our World, Hopeless, Bitter

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• I learned to stop being English about things like love. If you make a film in England about love, it's hugely complicated. It's all about saying what the weather is like, and you're secretly telling someone you love them. You know what the English are like; they're very repressed people. You don't get that in India. India is incredibly un-cynical about love. It's a not a complicated thing. It's me, you, love. Let's go.

  Simon Beaufoy

  Like Love, Weather, People

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• I figured even the most jaded and cynical inhabitant might report a bloody girl in a party dress carrying a severed head by its hair.

  Faith Hunter

  Girl, Party, Hair

  Faith Hunter (2009). “Skinwalker: A Jane Yellowrock Novel”, p.121, Penguin

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• When the Chinese government tells its citizens that they can worship in a certain building on a certain day, but once they leave that building they must bow to the secular orthodoxy of the state, you have a cynical lie at work. They’ve substituted a toothless ‘freedom of worship’ for ‘freedom of religion’.

  Eric Metaxas

  Lying, Government, Chinese

  "Raising Good Men". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. May 4, 2013.

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• The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.

  J. Irwin Miller

  Aggravation, Shame, Manners

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• What does not kill you will make you stronger and more cynical.

  Jessica Zafra

  Stronger, Doe, Makes You Stronger

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• Appalling numbers of youth have been led into a cynical ultra-sophisticated attitude which regards drinking as a badge of social aptitude, which makes a fetish of sport and professes eroticism as a way of life. A perverted and insane pictorial art, lewd exhibitionistic dancing and jungle music form the spiritual norm of this sector of America's youth.

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Sports, Spiritual, Art

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