Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.
Cynicism is a form of cowardice, a failure of courage to hope.
Maia Sharp is one of America's great singer-songwriters. Her storytelling runs profound and deep while honoring a pop tradition that urges you to sing along and feel good. Maia sings with an angelic voice that's shrouded in stark realism and a healthy dose of cynicism. . . . . it's an exotic cocktail!
As our self-interests differ, so do our feelings.
There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank. ' It's as though money is what you're doing, rather than playing music. If you're playing a money game, why not get into banking?
[The atheist believes] a world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.
Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties.
We have to use our discontentment to engage rather than disengage - our hope has to be more powerful than our cynicism.
. . I think there is less cynicism about human rights than there was. The work we are doing is part of the overall pattern of human development, whatever the political system, whatever the country, whatever the cultural background, whatever the religion.
Both faith and cynicism make judgment too easy.
There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.
You're constantly, in human culture, trying to balance between uplifting, heartfelt, sincere, earnestness that empowers and enlightens people, and the sarcastic cynicism that comes from just people's acquired bitterness over experiences.
Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.
There's a lot of cynicism. Let's really enjoy Christmas, with all that's going on in the world.
The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.
Cynicism is just an excuse for not helping.
It's all about the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism.
I need a healthy injection of cynicism right now.
Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.
What Rob Brezsny does with words is grammarye, the Old English term for magic. With his strange brew of macho feminism and poetic rationalism, Brezsny weaves a yarn crazy enough to be true and real enough to subvert the literalist virus of cynicism now immobilizing the collective mindscape.