Cynicism = Cowardice

Often I see around me people who mistake cynicism for critical thinking. 

 David Bowie in the song "Changes" wrote about youth's immunity to the consultations of the cynics of this world:
"the children that you spit on as they try to change their world are immune to your consultations, they're well aware what they're going through."

Moran cautioned that :“cynicism scours through a culture like bleach, wiping out millions of small, seedling ideas,”

Theodore Roosevelt admonished against “that cheap temptation” to be cynical, and wrote:

The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer. There are many men who feel a kind of twister pride in cynicism; there are many who confine themselves to criticism of the way others do what they themselves dare not even attempt. There is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of 
 sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty, whether in achievement or in that noble effort which, even if it fails, comes to second achievement. A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticise work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life’s realities — all these are marks, not as the possessor would fain to think, of superiority but of weakness. 

With an eye to those lazy critics — Roosevelt offed:
    It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat…

In My mind, Cynicism = Cowardice and I avoid all who practice it.

Fortune Favors the Bold

Virgil