Quotes on Cynical

The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.

We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy's side of the front is always propaganda and what is said on our side of the front is truth and righteousness, the cause of humanity and a crusade for peace.

Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted.

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun.

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.