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cynical
«Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it»
Author: Allan Bloom
| About:
Politics,
Students
| Keywords:
arrive, arrive at, critical, cynical, heritage, inspired, lacking, students, the University, university, wherewithal
«One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism 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.»
Author: John Berger
(Painter)
| Keywords:
abstract, callous, cynical, disillusion, disillusioned, idealism, inhuman, patients, They Live, uncertain
«We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.»
Author: Lionel Trilling
(Author, Critic, Teacher)
| Keywords:
anarchistic, at heart, authoritarian, cynical, profoundly, Utopia, Utopian, Utopians
«So why must it wound him that the most despairing music is full of beauty? Why must it hurt him and make him cynical and sad and untrusting?»
Author: Anne Rice
(Author)
| About:
Beauty,
Music
| Keywords:
cynical, despairing, untrusting, wound
«What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
amiable, cynical, likely, strained, straining