What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in a craven, cynical effort to stir up hatred and anger on both sides.
Join the army and see the next world.
In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.
It is a good idea to 'shop around' before you settle on a doctor. Ask about the condition of his Mercedes. Ask about the competence of his mechanic. Don't be shy! After all, you're paying for it.
No one more cynical than an idealist.
A well governed people are generally a people who do not think much.
We live in a cynical world now, and it's nice to be part of entertainment that is hopeful and heartfelt and wears its heart on its sleeve, but isn't saccharine. It's real. It's grounded.
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.
A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second.
My church accepts all denominations - fivers, tenners, twenties.
But I'm trying not to be cynical - I don't want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity and blows it. It's really amazing what's happening to me.
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt. . . Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
EMILY's List has worked a lot with swing women voters over the years, and one thing we've learned is that they are very cynical about politics and politicians. They very much want help with the challenges facing them and their families, and they feel like most politicians don't understand or want to lift a finger to help them out.
This notion that's peddled by the religious right - that they are oppressed is not true. Sometimes it's a cynical ploy to move their agenda ahead. The classic example being that somehow secularists are trying to eliminate Christmas, which strikes me as some kind of manufactured controversy.
The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
I am a positive person. I am not cynical. If you are born in this world, no matter who you are, negative things will happen. If you aren't positive as a person, you'll be very unhappy. It's extremely important to be positive, to laugh, to be happy, to accept life as it comes.
The Who is now a brand, not a band; but it is a brand that is upheld by its audience, not an industry or a cynical moneymaking machine.