#Cynicism

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"...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."

"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."

"As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?"

"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."

"I am a citizen of the world."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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