The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.
No one more cynical than an idealist.
If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.
How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core of romanticism or sentiment that's had a few chips nicked into it.
I'm kind of a skeptic at heart.
There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.
Pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away! I need my pain!
Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on the assertion that private vices become public benefits cannot endure, no matter how impeccable its logic, no matter how great its benefits.
A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.
People have maybe, sometimes, said that I can, occasionally, be a teeny bit edgy and judgmental.
I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.
People tend to become cynical about even the most appalling crisis if it seems to be dragging on, failing to come to term.
among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all
Hippy, you think everything is a conspiracy. Everything is!
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. That means trying to understand, take in, connect with, what wickedness human beings are capable of; and not be corrupted - made cynical, superficial - by this understanding.
I think that Goldman Sachs and the Pentagon determine more of America's outcome then any president or any congress, that sounds a bit cynical, but I think I am right.
Cynics about government find much to be cynical about.
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up.
[Lyndon Johnson was] the epitome of the unprincipled politician.
I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. But I understand the word "cynic" has more than one meaning, and I see how I could be seen as cynical. "George, you're cynical." Well, you know, they say if you scratch a cynic you find a disappointed idealist. And perhaps the flame still flickers a little, you know?
