Cynical Quotes

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.

What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.

I've always tried to present a positive view of the world in my work. It's so much easier to be negative and cynical and predict doom for the world than it is to try and figure out how to make things better. We have an obligation to do the latter.

So crucify the ego, before its far too late To leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical, And you will come to find that we are all one mind Capable of all thats imagined and all conceivable. Just let the light touch you And let the words spill through And let them pass right through Bringing out our hope and reason ... before we pine away.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

I like threesomes with two women, not because I'm a cynical sexual predator. Oh no! But because I'm a romantic. I'm looking for "The One." And I'll find her more quickly if I audition two at a time.

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

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

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.

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...

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

The opposite of creativity is cynicism

False hope really makes you cynical.

Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

History is neither written nor made without love or hate.