Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Planned Parenthood's entire existence is basically based on keeping people in the dark through euphemism. You don't call it genocide, you call… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
For one thing, before the 20th century, there were plenty of genocides. We tend to forget about them, partly because they weren't… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
In practice [monetary management] is merely a high-sounding euphemism for continuous currency debasement. It consists of constant lying in order to support… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When I heard you could get a disease from playing with your prairie dog, I thought, 'Wow, what a euphemism.' I thought… — Greg Giraldo Copy Share Image
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action... — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I'm waxed clean - hairless as the day as I was born. But don't say 'Tia has no pubic hair.' That's so… — Tia Carrere Copy Share Image
When I went to medical school, I was taught about two basic kinds of diabetes: juvenile onset and adult onset. From the… — David Katz Copy Share Image
Being fat just a fact. It feels important to me to speak the truth about that, and to not use a euphemism.… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive — Kate Burridge Copy Share Image
The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is — George Carlin Copy Share Image
When you say a wall, you mean a wall. You want to build a fence, you say fence. You don't use it… — Steve King Copy Share Image
Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent. — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.” — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's often the case that when a critic uses an embarrassingly accurate term to describe what a wrong-doer is doing, the wrong-doer… — Steve Kangas Copy Share Image
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