The Cynical Web Site – Where cynicism is just another word for sane

n. A person who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.

n. A person with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk forward.

n. A liberal that has either been mugged or paid taxes.

n. A statesman fond of existing evils.

Cynical Quotations

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

— Hannah Arendt

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

— Mark Twain

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

— John Kenneth Galbraith