#Cynicism

"I am a citizen of the world."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent."

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

"All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen."

"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"

"...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."

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

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

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

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing."

"It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."

"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."

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

"Cynicism is humor in ill health."

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

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

"If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life."