Cynicism Quotes - Page 17

• Cynicism is a form of obedience.

  Cornelius Eady

  Obedience, Form

  "Breaking into Song: An Interview with Cornelius Eady". Interview with Alexis Orgera, www.anmly.org.

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• Cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any Monoprix store - it's built into all poor-quality goods.

  Graham Greene

  Quality Goods, Poor Quality, Stores

  GRAHAM GREENE (1966). “THE COMEDIANS”

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• In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue.

  Albert Camus

  Effort, Guilty, Virtue

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• Energy always flows either toward hope, community, love, generosity, mutual recognition, and spiritual aliveness or it flows toward despair, cynicism, fear that there is not enough, paranoia about the intentions of others, and a desire to control.

  Michael Lerner

  Spiritual, Fear, Generosity

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• We must renew democracy itself. We have to fight cynicism and inertia and restore faith in the advancement of our country.

  Paul Wellstone

  Country, Fighting, Democracy

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• When I was a young reporter, the great vice among journalists was whiskey. Today, it's cynicism.

  Paul Simon

  Vices, Today, Whiskey

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• As the nation at last confronts global warming, it is no time for denial, greed, cynicism or pessimism.

  Bernie Sanders

  Greed, Denial, Lasts

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• Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void.

  Jerry Brown

  People, Leaving, Democracy

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• What seems conceit, bad manners or cynicism is always a sign of things no ear have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.

  Lucinda Williams

  War, Eye, Ears

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Each of us must work to become a hardheaded realist, or else we risk wasting our time and energy on pursuing impossible dreams. Yet constant naysayers pursue no less impossible dreams. Their fear and cynicism move nothing forward. They kill progress. How many cynics built empires, great cities, or powerful corporations?

  Colin Powell

  Dream, Powerful, Moving

  Colin Powell (2012). “It Worked for Me (Enhanced Edition): In Life and Leadership”, Harper Collins

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• A person is as young as their dreams and as old as their cynicism.

  Tony Campolo

  Dream, Young, Persons

  Tony Campolo (2000). “Let Me Tell You a Story: Life Lessons from Unexpected Places and Unlikely People”, p.69, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• One person's magical thinking is another person's cynicism.

  Damon Lindelof

  Thinking, Persons, Magical Thinking

  "Damon Lindelof on ‘The Leftovers’: ‘I’m fighting for the life of the show’". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. December 6, 2015.

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• Giving full rein to one's cynicism as one goes along produces a normal outlet and maintains an emotional equilibrium.

  S. S. Van Dine

  Emotional, Giving, Normal

  S.S. Van Dine (2013). “The Philo Vance Megapack: 12 Classic Mysteries - The Complete Series”, p.1022, Wildside Press LLC

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• If I'm jetlagging, and I've missed some meals, and it gets to that point in a movie that you're supposed to cry, I'll let my defences down from around my inherent standing level of cynicism, and I'll cry.

  Henry Rollins

  Meals, Levels, Cry

  "One last thing ... Henry Rollins". Interview with Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2010.

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• What happened is that in the middle of my life I went away and in my own sense of hubris, pride, cynicism, thought, I am an autonomous being in the world, I can control things, I am God.' But my experiment at being God failed! And they do have a great saying in AA: 'Get down off the cross, we need the wood!' And the important thing is to realise you are not the centre of the universe, you are not God.

  John Waters

  Pride, Important, Needs

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• Cynics know the answers without having penetrated deeply enough to know the questions. When challenged by mysterious truths, they marshall 'facts.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Answers, Facts, Mysterious

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.

  Merle Shain

  Men, Cynical

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• To the Latin, cynicism and middle age are synonymous. Look at our politicians - they move through their careers from left to center to right, like the hands of a clock.

  Helen McCloy

  Latin, Moving, Hands

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• What Rob Brezsny does with words is grammarye, the Old English term for magic. With his strange brew of macho feminism and poetic rationalism, Brezsny weaves a yarn crazy enough to be true and real enough to subvert the literalist virus of cynicism now immobilizing the collective mindscape.

  Antero Alli

  Crazy, Real, Yarn

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• There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and his Administration try to accomplish.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Trying, President, Administration

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• Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to stay on that line. I wanted it to be moving, but without being manipulative.

  David Nicholls

  Moving, Book, Knives

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• I always feel the cynicism is reality with maybe an alternate spelling or something because I feel that I have real perspective on this particular issue of punishment in society.

  Woody Allen

  Real, Punishment, Issues

  "Woody Allen Discusses "Match Point"". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. December 20, 2005.

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• At my years, and with my disposition, or rather, constitution, one gets to care less and less for everything except downright goodfeeling. Life is so short, and so ridiculous and irrational (from a certain point of view) that one knows not what to make of it, unless--well, finish the sentence for yourself.

  Herman Melville

  Life, Views, Years

  Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.454, Northwestern University Press

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• Both faith and cynicism make judgment too easy.

  Mason Cooley

  Faith, Judgment, Easy

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• The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.

  Albert Camus

  Temptation, Intelligence, Form

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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