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These leaders are like the drug lords who ruled America’s ghettos in the crack age, men (and some women) interested in just two things: staying in power, and hoovering up enough of what’s left of the cash on their blocks to drive around in an Escalade or a 633i for however long they have left.


Matt Taibbi


#money #power #age

Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.


Glen Cook


#dreams #poor #poor-people #rich-people #dreams

Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.


Glen Cook


#humor #life #humor

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.


Terry Pratchett


#humor #life #humor

This is some sort of joke, isn't it?" asks Hunt, staring at the flawless blue sky and distant fields. I cough as lightly and briefly as possible into a handkerchief I have made from a towel borrowed from the inn. "Probably," I say. "But then, what isn't?


Dan Simmons


#cynicism #cynicism-reality #joke-life #life

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.


Oscar Wilde


#nothing

Uncouth, clannish, lumbering about the confines of Space and Time with a puzzled expression on his face and a handful of things scavenged on the way from gutters, interglacial littorals, sacked settlements and broken relationships, the Earth-human has no use for thinking except in the service of acquisition. He stands at every gate with one hand held out and the other behind his back, inventing reasons why he should be let in. From the first bunch of bananas, his every sluggish fit or dull fleabite of mental activity has prompted more, more; and his time has been spent for thousands of years in the construction and sophistication of systems of ideas that will enable him to excuse, rationalize, and moralize the grasping hand. His dreams, those priceless comic visions he has of himself as a being with concerns beyond the material, are no more than furtive cannibals stumbling round in an uncomfortable murk of emotion, trying to eat each other. Politics, religion, ideology — desperate, edgy attempts to shift the onus of responsibility for his own actions: abdications. His hands have the largest neural representation in the somesthetic cortex, his head the smallest; but he's always trying to hide the one behind the other.


M. John Harrison


#greed #human-nature #thought #dreams

There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious.


Niccolò Machiavelli


#dire #religious

Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster.


Noelle Oxenhandler


#humour #life #melancholy #the-art-of-wishing #truth

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.


George Meredith


#intellectual






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