#Cynicism

"To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this:1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or absolutely wrong, as determined by reason.2. According to my reasoning, I am absolutely right.3. Charity is immoral.4. Pay for your own fucking schools."

"Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness."

"I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor."

"Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids. But they tried and perhaps failed."

"In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success"

"Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse"

"I want my time to be taken up by chores, errands, appointments, and arguments. In other words, I want to get married."

"Cynicism is humor in ill health."

"Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself."

"Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on."

"…a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed..."

"By the time you swear you're his,Shivering and sighing.And he vows his passion is,Infinite, undying.Lady make note of this --One of you is lying."

"Sometimes I think books are the only friends worth having."

"Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth."

"...God created the world in six days. On the seventh day, he rested. On the eighth day, he started getting complaints. And it hasn't stopped since."

"A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends."

"I am a citizen of the world."

"Cynicism places the cynic at the center seat of judgement with the self appointed authority to criticize and condemn."

"Cynicism is when a small mind and a hurt heart rejects the hope, love, and truth of a big and caring God."

"In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?"