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A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

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I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you couldn't be a comedian. ↗

— Colin Quinn

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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. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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The cynicism that you have is not your real soul. ↗

— Yoko Ono

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There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

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I have no cynicism at all. ↗

— Antony Sher

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As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate. ↗

— Alicia Silverstone

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Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

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I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

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Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence. ↗

— Robert Teeter

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