Cynicism is just an excuse for not helping.
Cynicism has all the smart words on it's side; idealism uses a nursery school dictionary.
An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.
To give [the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba] even covert support is on a par with the hypocrisy and cynicism for which the United States is constantly denouncing the Soviet Union in the United Nations and elsewhere. This point will not be lost on the rest of the world, nor on our own consciences.
Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty.
Come to me and show me a small cancer and I'll tell you you've got a small cancer that should be cut out. That's realism but in America it's called cynicism.
The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.
I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking.
As our self-interests differ, so do our feelings.
Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger.
For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.
As the nation at last confronts global warming, it is no time for denial, greed, cynicism or pessimism.
It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.
Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.
Cynicism is a choice. Optimism is a better choice.
A cynic sees little to admire in the world, while the world sees even less to admire in him.
Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems.
We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.
Cynicism. . . is the trade-mark of failure.
I never know how much of what I say is true.