top of page
"The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Cynicism quotes

"The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has - I'm not kidding."

"I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they're always being perverty when I'm around."

"All these handsome guys are the same. When they're done combing their goddam hair, they beat it on you."

"It is through experience that I have lost faith in USA law enforcement."

"The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people."

"Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is instead of as it should be."

"Politicians are interested in the health of the people like predators savor live prey."

"I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism."

"I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics."
Explore more quotes by Criss Jami

"There is a greater Christian faith than one which settles for the temporal happiness, and that is the augmentation of faith. The more faithful you become, the harder the obstacles get; but the harder the obstacles get, the tougher your spine grows; and the tougher your spine grows, the less dependent you are on man's approval. I came to know this about Christianity when valuing faith before comfort."

"When it comes to moral dilemmas and matters of discerning right justice, my natural sympathy so often happens to land on the opposite end of that of most of my peers. I sometimes wonder if this is nothing more than the misguidedness and the wickedness of my own heart. I wonder other times if God wires some of us in such a way so that fair discourse might then be provided, so that honest and unbiased, due process is ultimately more likely to be carried out. Perhaps it is all necessary for variance of perception, for mindful debate: that the heart is meant to create a bit of bias on certain issues; as between one another, they weigh and balance. For not all hearts are the same."

"The extent of creativity to which I admire in an individual is his ability to be richly creative while still, in a way, telling the truth. It is the fool who creates only his own lies, and the bore who simply repeats what he is told."

"I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded."

"I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult."

"In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on."

"The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is self-worship and narcissism."

"It is ironic that constructive thinkers are often misunderstood as negative, as they differ from those longing for positivity: constructive thinkers have been conditioned to find positive in negative rather than suffering from the negative in negative. Or as Paul the Apostle wrote, 'I have learned the secret to contentment in any and every circumstance.' He was right. Indeed the Lord is our strength, especially under the commandment to love one another. Otherwise we are nothing and easily thrown about by both our own and other people's mind control in a painful, mental, physical desperation to run from every thought, every thing, and every one not seeming so positive or immediately beneficial to us."

"If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences."
bottom of page