Cynicism Quotes - Page 14

• Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

  John Ortberg

  Church, Resistance, Pessimism

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• I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.

  Eric Stoltz

  Fashion, Dark, Thinking

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• I find it actually the height of romance to legally bind yourself to someone because you're really taking care of someone, and letting them take care of you. I actually have no cynicism about that.

  Jen Kirkman

  Romance, Care, Height

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• I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

  Rod Stewart

  Missing, British

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• Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.

  Jeremy Paxman

  Block, Journalist, Search For Truth

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• It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.

  Jeremy Paxman

  Giving, People, Answers

  "Paxman answers the questions" by Matt Wells, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2005.

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• It is cynicism, and not idealism, that is generally the mark of youthful immaturity, or rather it is the cynic who is generally the most foolish romantic.

  Andrew Sarris

  Immaturity, Foolish, Mark

  Andrew Sarris (1996). “The American cinema: directors and directions, 1929-1968”, Da Capo Pr

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• You know, the cynicism that is in the politics, it is not for my soul. It makes me - out of me, an extremely bitter, cynical person that I hate to see in the mirror, really.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Hate, Mirrors, Cynical

  "Marjane Satrapi: 'A Real Love Story Has To Finish Bad'". Interview with Scott Simon, www.krvs.org. August 18, 2012.

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• What's important is how we use our time on this earth, not how conspicuously we give our money away. What's important is the energy and courage we are willing to expend reversing entropy, battling cynicism, suffering and challenging mediocre minds, staring down those who would trample our dreams, taking a stand for magic, and advancing the potential of the human race.

  Dan Pallotta

  Dream, Race, Giving

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• What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it. The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.

  Abraham Verghese

  School, Sight, Empathy

  "'Literature about medicine may be all that can save us'" by Andrew Solomon, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2016.

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• ... but a dream is nothing more than reality shorn of cynicism.

  Joseph Girzone

  Dream, Reality

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• It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism.

  H. L. Mencken

  Adventure, Mind, Regard

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• When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.

  Anton Chekhov

  Real, Glasses, Drunk

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• Obasanjo has openly endorsed violence as a means of governance, embraced and empowered individuals whose avowed declarations, confessions and acts are cynically contrary to the mandate that alone upholds the legitimacy and dignity of his office.

  Wole Soyinka

  Mean, Office, Violence

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• About California... "I thought it was an appalling place. Then I went through a period of being amused by it. Now it's sort of both. Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

  Alex Kingston

  California, Alex, Amusement

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it either. I just want to expose certain truths.

  Todd Solondz

  People, Humanity, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Our choice is between cynicism and hope.

  Jim Wallis

  Choices, Our Choices

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• The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.

  Matt LeBlanc

  Cynical, Cynic, Better Off

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• Essentially, the [New York] Philharmonic is just like any other orchestra-they all have the spirit of kids, and if you scratch away a little of the fatigue and cynicism, out comes a 17-year-old music student again, full of wonder, exuberance and a tremendous love of music.

  Zubin Mehta

  New York, Kids, Years

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• Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.

  Adyashanti

  Doubt, Negative

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• Cynicism isn't smarter, it's only safer. There's nothing fluffy about optimism.

  Jewel

  Optimism, Fluffy, Smarter

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.

  Collis Potter Huntington

  Funny, Humorous, Mines

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• Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Thinking, Issues, Violence

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• blind wantons like the gulls who scream
  And rip the edge off any ideal or dream.

  Louis MacNeice

  Dream, Rip, Gulls

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.42, Faber & Faber

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• Representative democracy frequently manifests a disconnect between parliamentarians and the people, so that parliamentarians have agendas that do not correspond with the wishes of the electorate. This has led in many countries to apathy, cynicism and large-scale absenteeism in elections. What is needed is not only parliaments, but parliamentarians who genuinely represent the wishes of the electorate.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Country, People, Democracy

  "Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Alfred-Maurice de Zayas". July 01, 2013.

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