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Cynicism Quotes
"Cynicism is the humour of hatred."
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"Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive."
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"I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics."
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"The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people."
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"In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same."
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"It is through experience that I have lost faith in USA law enforcement."
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"I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking."
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"I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I'd rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it."
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"Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty."
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"I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism."
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"Motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches."
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"Expect stupid. It's everywhere."
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"No matter how kind you are, always expect a few imbeciles."
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"Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's."
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"I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they're always being perverty when I'm around."
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"Politicians are interested in the health of the people like predators savor live prey."
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"Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is instead of as it should be."
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"All these handsome guys are the same. When they're done combing their goddam hair, they beat it on you."
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"You're not exactly up for the Humanitarian of the Year award, so save your altruism for someone who can't see through you like cellophane."
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"Love is more than blind. It's brain-dead."
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"When young people are cynical, and snarky, they shoot down their own future. When you keep saying "No," all that's left is what other people said "Yes" to before you were born. Really, "No" is no choice at all."
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"Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws."
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"The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has - I'm not kidding."
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"I've given up men. It's true. At first, I was just going to give up attorneys, but that seemed immature - and far too exclusive, so I'm playing it safe and giving up all the penis-carrying humans."
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