[The atheist believes] a world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.
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Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
George MeredithRepresentative democracy frequently manifests a disconnect between parliamentarians and the people, so that parliamentarians have agendas that do not correspond with the wishes of the electorate. This has led in many countries to apathy, Cynicism and large-scale absenteeism in elections. What is needed is not only parliaments, but parliamentarians who genuinely represent the wishes of the electorate.
What all this posturing and fake glamor results in is a vast detachment and Cynicism on the part of the artists. Since it's impossible to have respect for an audience that'll take just about anything you care to dish out, and the impassive demeanor is so central to the role, a general numbnose is all that can be expected.
That's cynical. [Smiles.] Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Cynicism is humour in ill-health.
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
lillian hellmanCynicism is only intellectual sloth.
henry rollinsThe worst Cynicism: a belief in luck.
Myles na GopaleenWhat all this posturing and fake glamor results in is a vast detachment and Cynicism on the part of the artists. Since it's impossible to have respect for an audience that'll take just about anything you care to dish out, and the impassive demeanor is so central to the role, a general numbnose is all that can be expected.
lester bangsThere's none of this wisecracking and Cynicism that you see in ... some of the other cartoons. He's supposed to be a role model for kids. He cares about other people.
art clokey"Nothing says romance like hobos, martyrs and decapitations." On the creation of St. Valentine's Day. (14 February 2010) It's all about the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and Cynicism.
craig fergusonIt's like in most parts of America, where there was industry and there is no longer; there is Cynicism mixed with sarcasm and some optimism. That's how my background influenced my comedy.
jim gaffiganWhat is so painful about that time is that nothing was disastrous. It was all wrong, ugly, unhappy and coloured with Cynicism, but nothing was tragic, there were no moments that could change anything or anybody. From time to time the emotional lightning flashed and showed a landscape of private misery, and then — we went on dancing.
doris lessing…you know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for Cynicism.
There is no inevitable connection between Christianity and Cynicism. Truth is not a salad, is it, that you must always dress it with vinegar?
william morley punshonWe must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded Cynicism and indifference.
joseph ("joe") bidenTo give this activity even covert support is of a piece 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.
j. william fulbrightThere is no comparing the brutality and Cynicism of today’s pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.
charles krauthammerPerhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of Cynicism.
friedrich nietzscheWe remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and Cynicism.
camille pagliaPasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called Cynicism by those who have not got it…
George Bernard ShawMost governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love intrigue, who have lost whatever moral compass they may once have had and who protect themselves with steely Cynicism .
It is lack of confidence, more than anything else, that kills a civilisation. We can destroy ourselves by Cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
Biology is not physics , because organisms are such complex physical objects, and sociology is not biology because human societies are made by self-conscious organisms. By pretending to a kind of knowledge that it cannot achieve, social science can only engender the scorn of natural scientists and the Cynicism of the humanists.
I prefer credulity to skepticism and Cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all
America is the greatest, freest, and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of Cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.