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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.
The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
One of the saddest things in the world is to see a cynical young person.
If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.
There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth.
You have to be 100% behind someone, before you can stab them in the back.
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
A cynical plan has been launched in Ukraine to destroy this administration
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
If I was working hard, she bled into my personality. I became more cynical.
It's really important to differentiate between being sceptical and cynical.
You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant." "We live in cynical times, Miss Cain.
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be.
Despite his cynical exterior, he had a good heart-and Lissa owned most of it.
Love at first sight is probably for stupid people, but maybe I'm just cynical.
I never felt cynical, and I never felt that I couldn't do what I wanted to do.
I'm not cynical, but I don't really want to have a boyfriend or husband again.
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
There are not too many times when a movie's not cynical, you know what I mean?
It's easy to be cynical about American politics. It's more important not to be.
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.
If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.
How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
Do you want to injure someone's reputation? Don't speak ill of him, speak too well.
We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
I would rather have people be even cynical about me than to feed the negative vibe.
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
I'm a worrier. In the UK, if I'm known for anything, it's sort of for being cynical.
Not to sound cynical, but all you ever learn in prison is how to be a better criminal.
'Peace' is when nobody's shooting. A 'just peace' is when our side gets what it wants.
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself.
A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.
Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.
In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.