(149 quotes found)
“An old cynic is a guy, who is simply telling the truth, and that gripes the hell out of leeches; their lifestyle depends on the idiots believing their lies.”
Bobby W. Miller
“I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“We choose hope over despair, possibilities over problems, optimism over cynicism.”
John Edwards
“My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.”
Ted Koppel
“Our choice is between cynicism and hope. Hope is a decision you make. Hope means believing in spite of the evidence and then waiting for the evidence to change. Be the ones that we have been waiting for.”
Jim Wallis
“No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up”
Lily Tomlin
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.”
C.S. Lewis
“A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.”
“Certainly they will use it to show that promises made will be fulfilled. But in this country there's cynicism about promises made being kept.”
Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu
“Cynicism is intellectual treason.”
Norman Cousins
