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• I think that all the anger and cynicism comes from suppressing things that we always wanted.

  John Lee Hancock

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Suppressing, Cynicism

• A cynic seeks only to expose falsehood; a truth-seeker, to eradicate it.

  Shraga Silverstein

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  Tags in Cynicism

• Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It’s unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don’t have to try.

   

  Peggy Noonan

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  Tags in Cynicism

• I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.

  Eric Stoltz

  Topics in History, Movies, Nature

  Tags in Cynicism

• I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

  Rod Stewart

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Miss, Cynicism

• People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.

  Elliot Lee Richardson

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  Tags in People, Skepticism, Cynicism

• Cynicism is the intellectual cripple’s substitute for intelligence.

  Russell Lynes

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  Tags in Cynicism, Cripple, Substitute

• If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

  George W. Bush

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Cynicism

• Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

  George Meredith

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  Tags in Cynicism

• I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

  Tom Hanks

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• It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

  George Jean Nathan

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• You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you’re cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Cynicism, Critics

• The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.

  Yoko Ono

  Tags in Cynicism

• I don’t think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.

  Patricia Ireland

  Tags in Optimism, Pessimism, Cynicism

• In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

  Barack Obama

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Elections, Cynicism, Hope, End

• In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically.

  Vincent van Gogh

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  Tags in Cynicism, Skepticism, Living

• I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Cynicism, Think, Pretty

• Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

  Mason Cooley

  Tags in Hypocrisy, Cynicism

• Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

  Mason Cooley

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  Tags in Cynicism, Disappointment

• Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

  John F. Kennedy

  Tags in Cynicism, Skepticism