Zitat des Tages über Zynismus / Cynicism:
I've been to L.A. before, and I love the sunshine and the fact that people seem so genuinely nice and pleased to see you - which is so different from London. Maybe I'll end up so tired of smiles and helpfulness that I'll long for the rudeness and cynicism of home.
There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and his Administration try to accomplish.
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.
Our line of work is very cynical, and a lot of it is driven by cynicism, cruelty, and meanness. It's easier to believe the negative stuff than the positive stuff. The feel-good stories don't usually spend a lot of time on the front pages.
I don't want to sound like the old guy, but cynicism is a potential danger. It colors our way of looking at the world.
I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.
In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
Cynicism, to me, is trying to make people as unhappy as you are.
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty.
What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
This was the wonder of advertising; the complete absence of cynicism. It may have many mansions, but it has no room for Doubting Thomases.
Big business increasingly likes to portray itself as socially concerned, adopting the style of civic action through 'campaigns' of varying degrees of cynicism.
People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.
When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old.
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.
I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.
If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.
I don't think you can ever be ahead of your time with cynicism about that subject. No, I don't think it was ahead of its time. I think it was very much a product of its time.
I have no cynicism at all.
Cynicism is the easiest of all reactions, right? But it's also so disappointing and self-defeating.
Obviously, if people love a movie, and it has the possibility of continuation, then there is going to be a question of whether it's worth doing another one. There's also cynicism and skepticism about sequels.
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.
The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.
Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.
I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.
I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.
I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.
I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting.
The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.
