240 Quotes About Cynical

Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on the assertion that private vices become public benefits cannot endure, no matter how impeccable its logic, no matter how great its benefits.

Justice is the sanction of established injustice.

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

I'm a cynical idealist.

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really.

Smile first thing in the morning. Get it over with.

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

We live in a world where everybody's supposed to be cool and act tough and put up fronts, and everybody is so cynical.