I THINK a lot of CYNICISM has dropped AWAY from my shoulders SINCE I stopped DRINKING.

There's NOTHING more PAINFUL than SOMETHING that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a CYNICISM, or even a BITTERNESS.

Scientists are skeptics. It's UNFORTUNATE that the WORD 'skeptic' has TAKEN on other connotations in the culture involving nihilism and cynicism. Really, in its pure and ORIGINAL meaning, it's just THOUGHTFUL inquiry.

The thing that worries me more than anything ELSE is LOSING FAITH in the CAPACITY of politics to change things. I don't mean scepticism, CRITICISM, querying, but I do mean cynicism.

We will NEED to WORK hard to BREAK the CYNICISM, talk straight and rebuild TRUST in politics.

On a certain LEVEL, I don't think there is an answer to what the American way is, because it is constantly being re-defined. It's also been exploited and capitalized upon and politicized by one SIDE or the other to the point that a certain degree of cynicism has attached itself to that TERM.

No one EVER wants to be the girl that GOT her RELATIONSHIP wrong again, but if you let your cynicism take over you RISK never falling in love.

After years of POLICE WORK, officers OFTEN can't HELP but be INFLUENCED by the cynicism they feel.

I think that CITIZENS should be skeptical of government power. But I FEAR it's bled over to cynicism. It is something that is getting in the WAY of reasoned discussion, and I'm very CONCERNED about how to CHANGE that trend of cynicism.

I THINK the most DANGEROUS INFLUENCE for a YOUNG writer is to be treated with cynicism or DISCOURAGEMENT.

If you LOOK at American MEDICAL fiction written by doctors, like 'The House of God' by Samuel Shem and 'The Blood of Strangers' by Frank Huyler, both have themes of cynicism and dysfunction RUNNING through them that you won't find in 'ER.' You find it in 'Scrubs,' but because that's a COMEDY, it gets away with it.

It SEEMS to me that the WAY to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a STRAIGHT QUESTION, to give a straight answer.

Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the JOURNALIST's toolkit. But when scepticism BECOMES CYNICISM it can close off thought and block the search for TRUTH.

For me, a REALLY radical POSITION for JOURNALISM to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight AMONG the mediocre.

I feel compelled not to pass on a VISION of bleakness, destruction or cynicism. I want to TELL the TRUTH as I see it, but I also have to believe that INDIVIDUALS - my kids, your kids, whoever - can do something about it, and I want to show the ways in which they can do something about it.