Cynical Quotes

• When I'm cynical, I seek out bands that are fully participating and trying to push something forward. Or I can just start playing music again - which is happening with a new project. But I think it's always a challenge to overcome cynicism and not get bogged down by a sense of nostalgia. That can be such a stifling feeling.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Trying
  • Feelings
  • Challenges

• we know that our world is corrupt and diseased but we're tired of being cynical and feeling helpless. What the hell, tilt at a windmill.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • World
  • Feeling
  • Feelings

• You know, it's fashionable right now for people to be cynical. We go in cycles like this and right now a lot of people are saying, 'Oh, America is doing terribly' and 'What are we going to do?'

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • America
  • Cynical

• I think we sort of are all fans of love really, if you're not then you're too cynical aren't you?

  

  MyAnna Buring
  • Thinking
  • Fans
  • Cynical

• The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • War
  • Brutal
  • Powerless

• It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Cynical
  • Hall of Fame

• So long as human history continues, we will face the perennial challenge of realizing, maintaining and strengthening peace through dialogue, of making dialogue the sure and certain path to peace. We must uphold and proclaim this conviction without cease, whatever coldly knowing smiles or cynical critiques may greet us.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Long
  • May
  • History

• Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Party
  • Said
  • Treated

• I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Society
  • Government
  • Politics

• It is time to let America be America again. To return freedom to the people. To stand on our founding principles and reject the cynical politics of the Nanny State.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Cynical
  • Rejects
  • Founding

• A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

  

  Joseph Pulitzer
  • Press
  • Cynical
  • Base

• Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

  

  William Penn
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Liberty

• Amongst my friends, I am known as the most cynical person they know - I'm incredibly cynical. I don't believe in God, I don't believe in the supernatural, I don't believe in anything! And I'm terribly cynical, and somehow or other, all three of my films and much of my television work has been rather sentimental, and 'heartwarming'.

  

  Nigel Cole
  • Believe
  • Films
  • Sentimental

• Acting is something that I've done since I was so young. I always felt - certainly as a teenager - really cynical about acting. I definitely didn't feel like it was something I wanted to do, and so I really took it for granted.

  

  Sarah Polley
  • Feels
  • Acting
  • Teenager

• I had grown up during Vietnam. I had no connections to the U.S. military, and I had a pretty cynical default opinion about the U.S. military.

  

  Sebastian Junger
  • Opinion
  • Military
  • Connections

• Love is getting to be cynical, passion's just physical.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Passions

• The good news is hopeful doesn't mean dumb. The bad news is cynical doesn't mean smart.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Mean
  • Smart
  • Hopeful

• I learned to stop being English about things like love. If you make a film in England about love, it's hugely complicated. It's all about saying what the weather is like, and you're secretly telling someone you love them. You know what the English are like; they're very repressed people. You don't get that in India. India is incredibly un-cynical about love. It's a not a complicated thing. It's me, you, love. Let's go.

  

  Simon Beaufoy
  • People
  • Film
  • Complicated

• Nearly half a century has passed since Watson proclaimed his manifesto. Today, apart from a few minor reservations, the vast majority of psychologists, both in this country and in America, still follow his lead. The result, as a cynical onlooker might be tempted to say, is that psychology, having first bargained away its soul and then gone out of its mind, seems now, as it faces an untimely end, to have lost all consciousness.

  

  Cyril Burt
  • Country
  • America
  • Psychologists

• Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

  

  Minna Antrim
  • Experience
  • Teacher
  • Being

• You know, many people have called me, friends from the nationalist camp, revisionists and so on, from around the world, have called me over the years - and now again because of what happened - and they are all very cynical about the police and the authorities.

  

  Ernst Zundel
  • World
  • Friends
  • Police

• Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie. All deceit is bad. In politics some deceit or moral dishonesty is the oil without which the machinery would not work.

  

  Woodrow Wyatt
  • Succeed
  • Politician
  • Machinery

• I think my vibe seems to go to a darker tone because my sense of humor can be a little cynical, this is something I struggle with everyday.

  

  Sierra Swan The Black Eyed Peas
  • Struggle
  • Cynical
  • Vibe

• I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it.

  

  Shaun Cassidy
  • Fun
  • Risk
  • Married

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