Cynicism Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• As our self-interests differ, so do our feelings.

  Pierre Corneille

  Self, Feelings, Interest

  "Character: Cornélie". "La Mort de Pompée" by Pierre Corneille, act V, scene ii, 1642.

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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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• The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it's supposed sophistication, it's cynicism that's simplistic. In a fallen world, how profound is
  to see the cracks?

  Ann Voskamp

  Dark, Profound, Cracks

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• Lay down your cynicism, and believe in the transformational power of love.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Love, Believe, Lays

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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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• When people treat corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You have a political cancer that breeds cynicism about democratic government and infects all of society.

  Edward Brooke

  Cancer, Government, People

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• If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter of things -- to which the Stoic strictly adheres -- but in looking up to the spirit of things; in absolute contempt of all economic values and political splendor, and in courageous defence of the rights of independent freedom; then Christianity would be nothing but universal cynicism.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Independent, Rights

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• Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Names, Realist, Cynic

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• There is so much trouble in coming into the world, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that it is hardly worth while to be here at all.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Going Out, World, Trouble

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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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• 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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• Millions of small changes can be done, and through that, there can be a bigger impact because anybody can talk to another person. Anybody can educate somebody if they feel like their neighbor is stupid. It's more like "Educate thy neighbor, my friend." I think that enthusiasm, and not giving into lazy-minded cynicism, is where the potential and hope is.

  Eugene Hutz

  Stupid, Thinking, Impact

  Source: www.gogolbordello.com

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• Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Crush, Flower

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• There is message to the community that a non-governmental process is underway to bring about social change, it's a public one, and people like Margaret Thatcher, George Bush, and Mikhail Gorbachev are throwing their weight behind it. In a world where there's a lot of cynicism and despair, this has a candle-lighting effect.

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  Ram Dass

  People, Community, Despair

  Source: www.douglasgillies.com

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• I think that cynicism can often be mistaken for wisdom.

  Sarah Polley

  Thinking, Often Is, Mistaken

  Interview with Katie Holmes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2013.

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• Such techniques, including meta-discursive stuff, self-reference, irony, black humor, cynicism, grotesquerie and shock, it would be safe to say that television or televisual values rule the culture. Television is successfully using a lot of those same techniques but using them for a very different agenda, which is to sort of create an ethos and please people and to sell products to consumers.

  David Foster Wallace

  Self, Ethos, People

  Source: news.stlpublicradio.org

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• Come to me and show me a small cancer and I'll tell you you've got a small cancer that should be cut out. That's realism but in America it's called cynicism.

  Gore Vidal

  Cancer, Cutting, America

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Art, Long, Community

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

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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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• I love films that test cynicism and inspire you to do better in your dealings with your family and with strangers.

  Jennifer Phang

  Inspire, Tests, Film

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I am discovering that I can live far better without cynicism than I can without trust.

  Steve Goodier

  Without Trust, Discovering, I Can

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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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