Tony Kushner

You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.

American Playwright

Billy Corgan

I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.

American Musician

Kim Cattrall

If I didn't work in television or film, if I didn't have the right look, I never took it personally. Because there was always the theatre. I'm not a nihilist, I'm an optimist. And that has served me well in this profession.

English Actress

Tom Burke

I feel like an expressionist nihilist deep in my heart. And I think nihilism can stop the wheel from going around, around, around, around, around - saying the same thing, reacting the same way.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

I think you would have to be a nihilist to say that we are not making progress on cancer, just like you'd have to be hubristically optimistic to say that we have conquered cancer.

Indian Scientist

Leonard Baskin

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.

American Artist

Marilyn Manson

Yes, I'm reckless and sometime express no concern for my own well being, and I express a misanthropic view of the world, but to have an opinion, you can't be a nihilist.

American Singer

Rachel Kushner

I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.

American Writer

Hasan Minhaj

I'd rather be an angry optimist than an angry nihilist.

American Actor

Christopher Hitchens

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

American Author

Using 'nihilist' can express strong disapproval if the listener values beliefs and morals.

Emotional charge

Don't confuse 'nihilist' with 'atheist'; atheists disbelieve in gods, nihilists disbelieve in all values.

Avoid confusion

'Nihilist' sometimes refers to a radical questioning or skepticism, not only negativity.

Not just negative

Use 'nihilist' in academic or philosophical discussions to refer to an extreme form of skepticism.

Philosophical context

Although similar, an anarchist opposes authority; a philosophical nihilist doubts life's meaning.

Not anarchism

'Nihilist' can mislead in casual conversation; clarify it's not about being negative or lazy.

Modern usage

Understanding the term in a historical-Russian context can clarify misconceptions about modern nihilists.

Historical significance

The historical 'nihilist' often sought societal reforms, unlike the passive modern stereotype.

Revolutionary roots

 anti-immigration sound familiar but she suggested using it as a synonym for nihilism which i think is great cuz nihilist get really pissed off when you create new stuff and of course home I love it when Ted