Tag: Cynicism (home)

I have seen the future and it is just like the present, only longer.

permalink source: Kehlog Albran, "The Profit"
tags: Cynicism

More than any time in history, mankind now faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

permalink source: Woody Allen
tags: Cynicism

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of intellectual error.

permalink source: Raymond Aron
tags: Cynicism, Optimism, Pessimism

We have here the peculiarly American way of digesting Continental despair. It is nihilism with a happy ending.

permalink source: Allan Bloom, Closing of the American Mind 147
tags: Cynicism, Despair, Nihilism

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.

permalink source: Dale Carnegie
tags: Cynicism, Folly, Criticism

I am quite convinced that I have deep-seated psychological problems; however, they are what make me who I am. Since I am opposed to suicide on moral grounds, I shall not seek counseling.

permalink source: Glen, 1996
tags: Cynicism, Counseling

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: PRESIDENT CAN'T SWIM

permalink source: Lyndon B. Johnson
tags: Cynicism, Pessimism

Cynicism -- the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

permalink source: Russell Lynes
tags: Cynicism

A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.

permalink source: Peter McArthur
tags: Cynicism, Humor

The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Gives us ham and pork and Bacon. Let others think his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig.

permalink source: Ogden Nash
tags: Cynicism, Humor

The trouble with a kitten is that When it grows up, it's always a cat.

permalink source: Ogden Nash
tags: Cynicism, Humor

'Change' is scientific, 'progress' is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

permalink source: Bertrand Russell
tags: Cynicism, Progress, Change

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

permalink source: Lee Simonson
tags: Cynicism, Change, Rationalization

The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it.

permalink source: Anonymous
tags: Cynicism, Pessimism, Criticism

"If Thomas Edison's invention of the electric bulb were reported on tonight's evening news, it would be reported as a threat to the candle industry." Newt Gingrich Internet Commerce Expo '99,

permalink source: Newt Gingrich
tags: Cynicism, Pessimism

"Some people complain that God put thorns on roses, while others praise Him for putting roses on thorns."

permalink source: Anonymous
tags: Cynicism, Optimism, Pessimism

I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows.

permalink source: Bart Simpson
tags: Cynicism, Pessimism

In combatting cynicism, it helps to know its source. Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist--someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.

permalink source: Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline p 146
tags: Cynicism

Cynicism is the opiate of the intellectuals. (in response to Marx's famous comment about religion)

permalink source: Anonymous
tags: Cynicism

Another Month Ends All Targets Met All Systems Working All Customers Satisfied All Staff Eager and Enthusiastic All Pigs Fed and Ready to fly -Entry in Weekly Schedule New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

permalink source: Anonymous
tags: Cynicism, Optimism, Goals

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