Joseph Benavidez Quotes

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.

Skepticism about authority turns into corrosive cynicism.

No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.

One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.

I'm an old cynic.

I'm a very jaded and cynical person.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

I'm not by nature a cynical person. But sometimes your expectations are different from reality.

Everyone wrote me off, including me.

I am disabused of all faith, and see too clearly.

I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.

Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.

Cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any Monoprix store - it's built into all poor-quality goods.

I have earned my disillusionment.

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

I would say that I am a jaded man beyond most expectations, but, like everyone else, I still have hope.

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

I believe in nothing.

The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.

The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

I'm rather a cynic, I suppose. I do not believe in the niceness of humanity.