One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract ideali...sm has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating. This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 cynica...l, for the camera records in order to forget.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Machinery that gives us abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think... too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent, and all will be lost.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He smiles and all the effrontery of all my race... rises to meet his smiling, cynical face, and all my effrontery and all my wiles blanch and wither beside his enchanting smiles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to th...em, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical... about it.... It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputatio...n for cynicism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is time to provide a smashing answer for those cynical men who say that a democracy cannot be honest, cannot be efficient.... W...e have in the darkest moments of our national trials retained our faith in our own ability to master our own destiny.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »