Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
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The Little Foxes (1939)Lillian Hellman
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…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 reputation for cynicism.
William Somerset Maugham
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
Benjamin Disraeli
There is no inevitable connection between Christianity and cynicism. Truth is not a salad, is it, that you must always dress it with vinegar?
William Morley Punshon
To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats — we know it not.
Eric Hoffer
Our enemy really isn't capitalism, it's cynicism. That's one the things I learned from Woody (Guthrie)... Not to be cynical... That cynicism... It destroys you, it rots you away from the inside. So that sense of optimism and humanity... which 20 years ago I would have called socialism but now I'll call compassion... You know, that idea is still out there and alive and if you can plug into that and encourage that it makes it all worth while.
Billy Bragg
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