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We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.


Lionel Trilling


#authoritarian #believe #cynical #form #heart

I do believe that freedom isn't free - but today the corporate and political right wing is trying to cheapen this truly American value. They've been cynically using the word 'freedom' to rally the American public against its own best interests.


Richard Trumka


#american #american public #been #believe #best

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

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


Aldous Huxley


#cynical #doing #excuse #intelligent #intolerable

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


#attack #came #certainly #cynical #departments

Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.


David Byrne


#cynical #days #hard #pretty #these

I wish the masses of people would all follow my advice, because I'd throw it off a cliff.


Jarod Kintz


#cliff #cynical #funny #masses #funny

The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in the future as to be disconnected from contemporary issues.


John M. Ford


#contemporary #cynical #deal #disconnected #enough

If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.


Garet Garrett


#because #bonds #corporation #cynically #engraved

I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.


Kazuo Ishiguro


#cynical #felt #friends #had #i






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