#cynical

The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances. ↗

— Paul Getty

#circumstances #cynical #events #made #rich

I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#cynical #humour #i #irony #makes

Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#complex #cynical #exploitation #extreme #global

When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics. ↗

— William Hague

#again #cabinet #constitutional #convention #cynical

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical. ↗

— Keith Haring

#artist #becoming #boom #collecting #combined

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#cynical #funny #humour #funny

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#cynical #depressing #extremely #i #known

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget. ↗

— John Berger

#burden #camera #cynical #forget #god

We had a lot of riots. We came under attack from many of the police departments. It certainly wasn't some publicity thing. I was afraid for many years. We couldn't play in LA for many years. A lot of people got very cynical. ↗

— Greg Ginn

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