Cynical Quotes - Page 3

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

I’m actually trying to make sense of the world. There’s nothing cynical or absurd in what I do.

The biggest mistake of my life was taking a military education.

Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

Self improvement is masturbation.

Wonder is very necessary in life. When we're little kids, we're filled with wonder for the world - it's fascinating and miraculous. A lot of people lose that. They become cynical and jaded, especially in modern day society. Magic renews that wonder.

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.

There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

Take away the Holocaust and what do you have left? Without their precious Holocaust, what are the Jews? Just a grubby little bunch of international bandits and assassins and squatters who have perpetrated the most massive, cynical fraud in human history.

When the Chinese government tells its citizens that they can worship in a certain building on a certain day, but once they leave that building they must bow to the secular orthodoxy of the state, you have a cynical lie at work. They’ve substituted a toothless ‘freedom of worship’ for ‘freedom of religion’.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

Not to sound cynical, but all you ever learn in prison is how to be a better criminal.

Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time.

I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.

If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you've got it half licked.

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

we know that our world is corrupt and diseased but we're tired of being cynical and feeling helpless. What the hell, tilt at a windmill.

We muckraked, not because we hated our world, but because we loved it. We were not hopeless, we were not cynical, we were not bitter.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.

Conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old.

If you're conscious you must be depressed, or at least cynical.