#cynicism

I'm getting old, thought Eileen Calder. Old and worn out and cynical. And being cynical is a lot worse than being old or worn out. ↗

— Charles Sheffield

#burnout #cynicism #age

It's just so perfuck. ↗

— Toba Beta

#cynicism

One simple answer is that there has been a massive rise in the incidence of sanctimony and smugness among the successful that has nothing to do with any change in the underlying reality. Rather, it has been stimulated by politicians who have realized that it is possible to win power by recruiting the most economically successful forty per cent or so of the population in a crusade to roll back the gains made by their fellow citizens in the previous forty years. And how better to rationalize this than to tell people that they deserve the incomes that the market generates? ↗

— Brian M. Barry

#economics #nulabor #politics #reaganism #thatcher

Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true. ↗

— Glen Cook

#dreams #poor #poor-people #rich-people #dreams

That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent. ↗

— Sergei Lukyanenko

#difficult #faith #hard #indifference #faith

Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent. ↗

— Glen Cook

#humor #life #humor

It all depends on what people you're talking about helping. That's the wonderful think about just about every religion on the planet - they're all so incredibly selfish. ↗

— Derek Landy

#cynicism #helping-others #perspective #religion #selfishness

He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#hard #heroism #life #life

The world didn't give a shit. It didn't bestow. It took ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#life #life

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#nothing