Cynicism Quotes - Page 10

• Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems.

  Cory Booker

  Wise, Imagination, Limits

  Twitter post from Aug 19, 2016

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• I really like dark music and darkness in general and cynicism and pessimism and negativity because it allows you to create an even bigger contrast.

  Andrew W.K.

  Dark, Negativity, Pessimism

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I find that the critics of voluntary service are all too often those who are prepared to accept such services when they require them but deride them with cynicism and scepticism when they see others helping and being helped.

  Eva Hart

  Helping, Volunteerism, Accepting

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• I think cynicism often disguises itself as humour.

  Michka Assayas

  Thinking, Humour, Disguise

  Michka Assayas (2006). “Bono”, p.108, Penguin

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• Acceptance is supposed to be a good thing - Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Also compromise, as every couples therapist will tell you. But the cost was high - the damping of expectation, the dwindling of spirit, the resignation that comes to replace enthusiasm, the cynicism that supplants hope. The mouldering that goes unnoticed and unchecked.

  A.S.A. Harrison

  Couple, Acceptance, Expectations

  A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.143, Penguin

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• I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.

  Jane Gardam

  Thinking, Young Writers, Influence

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• Baseball, of all sports, and maybe of all human endeavors, has no room for cynicism.

  Howard Frank Mosher

  Sports, Baseball, Rooms

  Howard Frank Mosher (2014). “Waiting for Teddy Williams”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the imperial forces of cynicism and irony. I am a sentimental soldier.

  Sherman Alexie

  War, Soldier, Sentimental

  Sherman Alexie (2012). “Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories”, p.304, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Irony, Moments, Controlled

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction.

  John Steinbeck

  Self, Bored, Sloth

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.318, Penguin

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• It is not OK in this culture to talk to friends about causes you believe in, much less to ask them to join in. It's OK to blast perfect strangers with crass messages every hour of the day, but it's a tinge embarrassing, it brings up some shyness, it seems an intrusion, it risks rejection to share real heartfelt commitments. It's easier to share our cynicism with strangers than our dreams with friends.

  Donella Meadows

  Friends, Dream, Real

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• One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.

  Kevin Spacey

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• There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're doing, rather than playing music. If you're playing a money game, why not get into banking?

  Artie Shaw

  Games, Playing Music, Why Not

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• Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.

  John Walford

  Art, Overcoming, Problem

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• The church seeks to help form people who can risk being peaceful in a violent world, risk being kind in a competitive world, risk being faithful in an age of cynicism, risk being gentle among those who admire the tough, risk love when it may not be returned, because we have the confidence that in Christ we have been reborn into a new reality.

  John Howard Yoder

  Reality, People, Peaceful

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• ..I think there is less cynicism about human rights than there was. The work we are doing is part of the overall pattern of human development, whatever the political system, whatever the country, whatever the cultural background, whatever the religion.

  Martin Ennals

  Country, Thinking, Rights

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• Cynicism is no more mature than naïveté. You're no more mature, just more burned.

  Karl Marlantes

  Vets, Mature, Burned

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• Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit.

  Danny Wallace

  Mistake, People, Privilege

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• I think despair and cynicism are two different things. On the flip side of hope is despair. Belief and doubt are the same thing, in that to believe something you have to actively doubt the opposite. And from my perspective, that's the deep end. You're dealing with the unknown; you're dealing with mystery.

  Jon Foreman

  Believe, Thinking, Opposites

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• This is our moment...while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.

  Barack Obama

  Yes We Can, People, Doubt

  President-Elect Victory Speech, delivered 4 November 2008, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

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• Cynicism is carnality that thinks its smart.

  Beth Moore

  Smart, Thinking, Carnality

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• I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there’s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

  David Biespiel

  Long, Mess, Poetry Is

  "David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Cynicism Of Mark Edmundson, Or Poetry Is Still Not Dead" by David Biespiel, therumpus.net. June 21, 2013.

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• But hard bitten cynicism leaves one feeling peevish, and too much of it can do lasting damage to your heart.

  Julie Powell

  Heart, Feelings, Too Much

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• Cynicism is just an excuse for not helping.

  Marianne Williamson

  Helping Others, Excuse, Helping Hand

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Sep 10, 2013

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• Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics.

  Stephen Colbert

  Wise, Remember You, Remembers You

  Stephen Colbert Commencement Address, departments.knox.edu. June 2006.

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