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Cynic Quotes (page 8)

Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations. Joseph Pulitzer
Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky's the limit. Your sky. Your limit. Now. Let's dance. Tom Hiddleston
our triumphant age of plenty is riddled with darker feelings of doubt, cynicism, distrust, boredom and a strange kind of emptiness Samuel Johnson
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "But I was naturally suspicious; it comes from working too..."
But I was naturally suspicious; it comes from working too closely with the police for too long. Cynicism is so contagious. Laurell K. Hamilton
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing. Oscar Wilde
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with..."
Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence. Friedrich Nietzsche
L. Ron Hubbard quote: "The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the..."
The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age. L. Ron Hubbard
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they... F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Fowles quote: "...all cynicism masks a failure to cope."
...all cynicism masks a failure to cope. John Fowles
Nicholas Sparks quote: "The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would..."
The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. Nicholas Sparks
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being..."
Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical. Vladimir Nabokov
I didn't know how to define it -- hermetic skepticism? liturgical cynicism? -- this higher disbelief that led him to acknowledge the dignity of all the superstitions he scorned. Umberto Eco
Now, there's this about cynicism, Sergeant. It's the universe's most supine moral position. Real comfortable. If nothing can be done, then you're not some kind of shit for not doing it, and you can lie there and stink to yourself in perfect peace. Lois McMaster Bujold
Brecht was a cynical bohemian bogey of the middle classes, but also much more than a mere provocateur. He developed and dramatized his political knowledge in remarkable ways, and was an outspoken, radical opponent of the war, its nationalism and its capitalism Harold Bloom
It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power we could have little faith in ourselves. We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love. Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create. Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important, and that his work, well done, is a part of an unending plan. Calvin Coolidge

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