Our art is made in cities like New York by people who are running from other places. They feel themselves as misfits who were trapped in dead-end suburbs. They hated high school. Their parents did not understand. They are seeking a better world. And when they realize that the world is wholly a problem, that the whole problem is in them, they make television for other people who are also running, who take voyage in search of a perfect world, then rage at the price of the ticket.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTags: art cynicism misfits modern-art running-away
Results are their own propaganda. The vast majority of the people are free, prosperous, and safe under the Phoenix Society's rule. They are happy. Why should they care if the likes of you are denied due process?" --Imaginos
Matthew GrayboschTags: politics cynicism due-process imaginos
His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.
Terry PratchettTags: humor age cynicism aging
Try persuading the world not to cut its throat for half a decade or more...and it'll begin to dawn on you that even your behavior's part of its plan.
Malcolm LowryThis was how you wound up in the Inquisition. When you stopped being able to see any difference between Light Ones and Dark Ones. When for you, people weren't even a flock of sheep, but just a handful of spiders in a glass jar. When you stopped believing in the future, and all you wanted to do was preserve the status quo. For yourself. For those few individuals who were still dear to you.
Sergei LukyanenkoTags: cynicism anton-gorodetsky
The increasingly cynical court thought Arthur, "hypocritical, as all decent men must be if you assume decency cannot exist.
T.H. WhiteTags: cynicism hypocrisy decency
I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom.
Fyodor DostoevskyTags: innocence cynicism idealism corruption disappointment cynic cynical sodom
We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.
Joe BidenTags: cynicism indifference idealism
Birth, n.: The first and direst of all disasters.
Ambrose BiercePossibly, some cynic, at once merry and bitter, had desired to signify, in this pantomimic scene, that we mortals, whatever our business or amusement--however serious, however trifling--all dance to one identical tune, and, in spite of our ridiculous activity, bring nothing finally to pass.
Nathaniel HawthorneTags: inspirational cynicism capitalism nihilism
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