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Last updated on November 18, 2024.
There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the age and place of the gifted pickle sucker!
Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void.
The low-hanging fruit is cynicism and pessimism, and it's there if you want it. You can reach out and you can grab it, you don't even have to make any effort.
There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.
When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.
We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.
I just want to write songs in my little corner. And I still love music, I've not been worn down by cynicism.
In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
Cynicism was a one-way path, and once taken the way back was lost forever.
It is a testament to our naïveté about culture that we think that we can change it by simply declaring new values. Such declarations usually produce only cynicism.
America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.
And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.
Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.
People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.
I'm actually equal parts cynicism and apathy. I'm always willing to believe the worst as long as it doesn't take too much effort.
For all the cynicism that the world contains, people are a little more open to those things that maybe are to do with returning you to some kind of simpler, happier state.
When anybody goes to L.A. from London, there's always this slight sense of, 'What are you doing? Who do you think you are? It's never gonna happen.' It's the classic, good-natured British cynicism.
Cynicism makes you feel smart, I know it, even when you aren't smart.
For me, the more I think about the problems of the world, I feel I have to be positive. I wouldn't like to fall into cynicism or nihilism. That's not in my nature.
My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.
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...
Promising a revolution that’s simply not feasible really does have the potential to create cynicism when a couple of years go by and it hasn’t happened.
I don't want to sound like the old guy, but cynicism is a potential danger. It colors our way of looking at the world.
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.
For me, being in shape means, like, not having cynicism out-weigh optimism on a daily basis.
It's like in most parts of America, where there was industry and there is no longer; there is cynicism mixed with sarcasm and some optimism. That's how my background influenced my comedy.
I enjoy watching children interact with the world, the way they engage their environment without any filters, learned models, or cynicism.
Cynicism is something that is part of the media production of a certain type of subjectivity or consciousness that is passive and disempowered, cynical, fatalistic, pessimistic.
I've got rid of a lot of cynicism and anger. I feel positive about my development, and I just want to carry on making music and building myself as a person.
The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism.
I honestly expected me learning Welsh to be met with a certain amount of cynicism, even outright hostility from some. But that hasn't happened.
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?
For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.
I really like dark music and darkness in general and cynicism and pessimism and negativity because it allows you to create an even bigger contrast.
I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism.
Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.
Cynicism is more than a pose; it's also a handy time saver. By deflating your companion's enthusiasm, you can cut conversations in half.
I am discovering that I can live far better without cynicism than I can without trust.
I'm an optimistic person, and I tend to bury my cynicism in what I read and the movies I watch. My optimism holds that the good guys eventually come out on top.
I love films that test cynicism and inspire you to do better in your dealings with your family and with strangers.
I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.
Reject cynicism. Reject certitude. And don't be a jerk. Be a good guy.
Many of us develop different flavors of cynicism that we work hard to resist because they can be lazy mental shortcuts.
I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.
There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness.
Cynicism means the conduit to the soul has a great kink in it, like a garden hose in which nothing flows in either direction.
Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.
A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism.
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.
No one ever wants to be the girl that got her relationship wrong again, but if you let your cynicism take over you risk never falling in love.
Cynicism was a school in Greece - the Cynics. Diogenes is a famous Cynic. There was a strong belief in nihilism and narcissism. Those are old schools too.
[The atheist believes] a world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.
Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit.
This business is ephemeral, and you have to maintain a healthy cynicism about it. There's a 'flavour of the month' aspect to it, so you have to keep moving on and mutating.
The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.
I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don't really know where wittiness is constructive.
However vain our entire political class or organizations are, in the name of cynicism we cannot bend towards authoritarian populism.
Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.
