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Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.
— Henry A. Kissinger
He was a cynic and like most cynics, totally selfish and self-indulgent.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.
— Roy Hattersley
Don't listen to the cynics. They were wrong about my generation and they were wrong about yours.
— Joe Biden
I believe that history is not made by cynics; it is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us be these people.
— Tzipi Livni
The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.
— Marianne Moore
Cynics are merely idealists with unusually high standards.
— Alain De Botton
cynics were once romantics. Most of them still are.
— John Connolly
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Don't confuse my point of view with cynicism. The real cynics are the ones who tell you that everything's gonna be all right.
— George Carlin
To me the cynics are the ones in the boardrooms with the reports from the focus groups.
— George Carlin
Cynics are all moralists, and merciless too.
— Indro Montanelli
Isn't it strange how the most lethal cynics are often the most optimistic creative dreamers?
— Robert Black
What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.
— Albert Einstein
To all the cynics, I'm sorry for you, ... I'm sorry you can't believe in miracles. This is a great sporting event and hard work wins it.
— Lance Armstrong
In a world full of cynics, critics, and competitors, we get to choose instead to be cheerleaders for others.
— Shelley Hendrix
Death makes cynics of us all
— Simon Critchley
Sometime between when the Summer of Love ended and the Summer of Sam began, America became a nation of cynics about love.
— Tracy McMillan
The cynics were watchdogs terrifying malefactors. They tried to expose falseness and conceit. That's why their name is still spoken with a snarl.
— Petr Skrabanek
High above the noise and fear mongering of critics and cynics softly speaks your true self.
— Mollie Marti
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt ... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
— Robert Anton Wilson
Cynics about government find much to be cynical about.
— Alice Rivlin
Cynics know the answers without having penetrated deeply enough to know the questions. When challenged by mysterious truths, they marshall 'facts.
— Marilyn Ferguson
We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.
— Paul Hoffman
All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.
— Josh Lanyon
Cynics criticize, and winners analyze
— Robert T. Kiyosaki
It's the cynics who never get married.
— Jay McInerney
And then comes the realization. That although a house was taken from you, you can still build a home in a wine jar.
— Camilo Garzon
War is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of idealists by cynics and of troops by politicians.
— Chris Hedges
I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
We are called to have faith, even in the darkest hour, and not grow faint or join with the cynics and the mockers." C.S. Lewis
— Lara Giesbers
Perhaps he did not know himself - like all these intellectual cynics ...
— Arthur Koestler
I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it.
— Joshua Lederberg
So, leave the cynics be. Out-cynic them. Step into that elsewhere. Believe that your story is bigger than yourself. In
— Colum McCann
He see's the world the way cynics do; Not looking for false Hope.
— Meredith Duran
I'm one of those old cynics that thinks, whoever you vote for, the government always gets in.
— Peter Hook
It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.
— Molly Ivins
Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance.
— Wilferd Peterson
Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.
— William Goldman
Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist - someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.
— Peter M. Senge
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
— H.L. Mencken