Cynicism Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory.

  William Shakespeare

  Vapour, Earth, Important Hamlet

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

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• Tackle the difficult things first in the morning; make changes in the way you network. Treat everyone with respect and dignity. This stops you from cynicism and negativity. End your day with that same attitude you started. Renew your contract with a day well completed.

  Rick Pitino

  Morning, Attitude, Negativity

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• Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.

  Bergen Evans

  Wisdom, Madness, Stoicism

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• [Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.

  George Berkeley

  Nastiness, Christianity, Stoicism

  George Berkeley (1871). “Alciphron: or, The minute philosopher. 1732. Siris. 1744”, p.178

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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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• Here is the mistake of the cut-and-dried man of culture. He goes about with the secret of having learned to appreciate the "grandstyle." He has lived in Homer till he can recall the roll of that many-sounding sea. He has pored over the lofty and pictorial thought of Plato till he begins to pique himself upon its grandeur. His fancy has been fed on the quaint old-world genius of Herodotus, his judgment on the melancholy wisdom of Tacitus and the complacent cynicism of Gibbon--and of all this he is conscious and proud.

  Richard Holt Hutton

  Plato, Mistake, Cutting

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• The aphorism sometimes casts off cynicism and expresses strong feeling.

  Mason Cooley

  Strong, Feelings, Sometimes

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• Cynicism has its own zealots.

  Mason Cooley

  Zealot

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• Don't confuse my point of view with cynicism. The real cynics are the ones who tell you that everything's gonna be all right.

  George Carlin

  Real, Views, Point Of View

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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