cynicism

Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

Life__he way it really is__s a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

Watch what people are cynical about and one can often discover what they lack.

A cynic is a man who when he smells flowers looks around for a coffin.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl vigilant in darkness and blind to light mousing for vermin and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.

Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is instead of as it should be.

There is nothing to which men while they have food and drink cannot reconcile themselves.

Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as effectively as by bombs.

Cynicism is humour in ill health.

Cynicism - the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism without the coxcomb's feathers.