“The biggest hurdle that our communities have is cynicism - saying it's a done deal, who cares; there's no point to voting. If we can get somebody to care, it's a huge victory for the movement and the causes we're trying to advance.”— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, brainyquote.com
“While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is that I am a naysayer and hatchet-man in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and I'll gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely: rev…”— Robert Engels, Albert Rosenfield, Miguel Ferrer, imdb.com
“People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part; on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge of the body to relieve oneself of the strain of thinking, just as exercising the muscles helps the body to become temporarily unconscious of its weight, its pain, its weariness, and…”— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com
“We all know that any emotional bias—irrespective of truth or falsity—can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions of the young, hence the inherited traditions of an orthodox community are absolutely without evidential value....If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their yo…”— H. P. Lovecraft, amazon.com
“You never give anything. Every gift has a price. Every favor is a test.”— Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Michael Jones-Morales, Ryder, Oliver Stark, imdb.com
“Sardonic humor is just my way of relating to the world.”— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Jughead Jones, Cole Sprouse, imdb.com
“Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it…”— George Bernard Shaw, en.wikiquote.org
“I know that it's easier to portray a world that's filled with cynicism and anger, where problems are solved with violence. What's a whole lot tougher is to offer alternatives, to present other ways conflicts can be resolved, and to show that you can have a positive impact on your world. To do that,…”— Jim Henson, amazon.com
“People who are drawn to journalism are usually people who, because of their cynicism or emotional detachment or reserve or whatever, are incapable of being anything but witnesses to events. Something prevents them from becoming involved, committed, and allows them to remain separate.”— Nora Ephron, books.google.com
“I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable of being.”— Nora Ephron, m.csmonitor.com
“Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of th…”— Stephen Colbert, departments.knox.edu
“If you want to persuade me that everything is going to be terrible, then we can talk ourselves into that. Or we can act.”— Barack Obama, rollingstone.com
“Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes”— Leonard Cohen, open.spotify.com
“How could she ever understand that there isn’t any way I could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?”— Bret Easton Ellis, Patrick Bateman , amazon.com
“The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.”— Hillary Clinton, esquire.com
“The person I am will always be the person I am, I realize. The context may have changed… But fundamentally, I'm the same person.”— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.com