Ken MacLeod Quotes

I have no interest in behaving or thinking cynically. But it's an easy trap to be cynical about anything, certainly when you're talking about politics or the media.

You can't blame anyone for being cynical about politicians.

To me, politics is a pile of tricks.

I've never met a politician I haven't wanted to walk away from, and I've yet to hear a politician speak and actually believe the words coming out of his mouth.

Most people have a healthy disrespect for politicians.

We have become so cynical that we are always challenging each other’s motives and in very few instances do we engage in an intelligent argument in the substance of the argument.

In the coffee shops of the Middle East, where only conspiracies are believed and the simple truth is considered naivete or duplicity, America’s motives are invariably assumed to be malicious.

I have a sustained distrust for all politicians, even those with whom I agree on more issues than not.

It's become hard for me to trust people and though I'm the type to go, 'everybody is born good,' you come to question that.

I don't pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn't try to convince you that salt was sugar.

Schroeder, do you think love is the answer to everything?" "Boy, I hope not!

Sometimes I just think people are haters. And if they're haters, you can listen to what they have to say but you have to take it with a grain of salt.

Who knows what the hell a government is or what the hell a government does.

Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.

Experience seems to convince us that only fools trust, that only fools believe and accept all things. If this is true, then love is most foolish. For if it is not founded on trust, belief and acceptance, it's not love.

I find myself being quite cynical - and I think we all kind of are - towards the idea that it's associated with being a musician; you know... the kind of rock-star attitude. So, I hope that people know it's a joke.

When I hear a person talking about political solutions, I know I am not listening to a serious person.

Reason was for suckers and Presbyterians.

Don't even trust that you are able to unify what everyone is thinking; it is impossible

Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.

I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilization - you can't just swallow it whole.

And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

The thinking person's case for Romney, murmured by many of his backers, amounts to this: Vote for Mitt, you know he doesn't believe a word he says.

I beg you both, take heart.'(Varys) 'Whose?' asked Tyrion sourly. He could think of several tempting choices.

A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.