240 Quotes About Cynical

The good television of today is probably better than the best television of the old days. The bad television of today is worse. It is not only bad, it is damaging, meretricious, seedy and cynical.

I'm rather cynical about the way the honours system is used, frankly. A whole lot of the honours system is used for political purposes by the government in power.

I really try, at least consciously, not to be cynical or ironic.

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

It was a shock, yes, and it really woke me up to how cynical the music industry was,

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.