Cynical Quotes - Page 23

• I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people.

  Jo Brand

  People, Reason

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• These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught up in a powerful emotion -- wonder, fear, greed, grief. Credulous acceptance of baloney can cost you money; that's what P. T. Barnum meant when he said, 'There's a sucker born every minute.' But it can be much more dangerous than that, and when governments and societies lose the capacity for critical thinking, the results can be catastrophic -- however sympathetic we may be to those who have bought the baloney.

  Carl Sagan

  Powerful, Grief, Acceptance

  Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.209, Ballantine Books

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• I think I'm too cynical for L.A. My sense of humor doesn't go down well here, which probably affects my love life. I need to have a laugh track following me around so people know I'm trying to be funny.

  Teddy Thompson

  Love Life, Thinking, People

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• I don't want to make things that are cynical and aggressive just because, oh my God, there's enough of that going on in the world without me adding to it.

  Ruth Jones

  World, Want, Enough

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• I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Heart, Comforting, Ugly

  Interview with Michael Cavna, www.washingtonpost.com. March 12, 2011.

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• I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that.

  Amy Winehouse

  Rose, Want, Expecting

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• I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.

  Adela Rogers St. Johns

  Husband, Women, Thinking

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

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• 　When the leaders speak of peace
  　The common folk know
  　That war is coming
  　When the leaders curse war
  　The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread
  　I go to the market where lies are bought
  　Hopefully
  　I take up my place among the sellers.
  　

  Bertolt Brecht

  War, Lying, Common Folk

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• The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Book, Ideas, History

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• We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Animal, Population, Rabbits

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• Values cannot be speedily forgotten if it is inconvenient or commercially expedient. Values have to have meaning and longevity; otherwise they are valueless. You cannot embrace innovation up to a point or only sometimes. Branding demands commitment; commitment to continual re-invention; striking cords with people to stir their emotions; and commitment to imagination. It is easy to be cynical about such things, much harder to be successful.

  Richard Branson

  Commitment, Successful, Imagination

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• I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction... I believe that even amid today's mortar bursts and whining bullets, there is still hope for a brighter tomorrow... I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, War, Believe

  Martin Luther King, Jr.'s acceptance speech on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1964.

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• It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

  Carl Jung

  Sad, Men, Memories Dreams Reflections

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• One should never know too precisely whom one has married

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Marriage, Wedding, Married

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.287, Penguin

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• Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.

  John Hench

  People, Intuition, Instinct

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• Life is a whirlwind of many opportunities. Choose to embrace all of them in deepest gratitude. Learn to forgive yourself and honour the heart that beats within you, as well as the head that rests on your shoulders. Learn how to believe in people again and not be judging or cynical to various beliefs. We are all of one light on this one Earth, and loving humanity makes all the difference.

  Michelle Cruz

  Gratitude, Believe, Heart

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• Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion.

  Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

  Love, Funny Valentines Day, Believe

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• All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact that every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

  Ugo Betti

  Names, Giving, Mad

  Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler

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• Conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old.

  Brock Chisholm

  Mother, Years, Six Year Olds

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• I'm too cynical to be an optimist.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Optimist

  "Comedian Anthony Jeselnik: “He’s The Best!” -Everybody". Interview With David Dean, www.serialoptimist.com. November 29, 2010.

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• Here I was in Estonia, doing a concert for 5,000 people, and not many people know the song My Way - Gorbachev in the 80s, My Way had just become a famous song, and [Mikhail] Gorbachev in a satirical, kind of cynical manner coined the term the Sinatra Doctrine and My Way was the song because the Baltic states in the Warsaw Pact wanted to go their own way and secede from the Soviet Union, so joking he says," Yeah, we've got the Sinatra Doctrine now."

  Robert Davi

  Song, People, Doctrine

  "INTERVIEW: Actor Robert Davi On His Frank Sinatra Tribute, His Hamptons Roots, 'Davi’s Way' And More". Interview with Nicole Barylski, www.hamptons.com.

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• I think [John Adams] developed a much deeper suspicion of France and the other European powers than he had earlier. He lost much if not all of the utopian thinking about international politics and diplomacy expressed in his Model Treaty of 1776 and became much more cynical about the world.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Thinking, World, France

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• I've become less cynical, which is appalling but kind of cool.

  Joss Whedon

  Kind

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• The big frustration for me is that people are growing so cynical about politics that you see them basically shrug and say, "Oh, yeah. Who cares that Harper is shutting down debate? Who cares that he's building prisons, and everything? All the politicians are the same so why should we be outraged about one rather than the other?" And my point is Canadians need to wake up. This is not the Canada they'd recognize if they looked closely.

  Justin Trudeau

  Frustration, People, Wake Up

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think that idealism is always there in America. It's a spirit that's been subverted lately, and sold down the river to the contractors, what with the privatizing of all aspects of the government. It's so cold and cynical - all dollars and cents and parcel it up and sell it out and downgrade it and outsource it. They don't consider what it does to people. I think the spirit of this country is finally coming back, and hopefully it will triumph.

  Tim Matheson

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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