Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition. — Paul Kenneth Keller Copy Share Image
“In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
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
in terms of the biology of the planet, development is a euphemism for destruction. — Helen Caldicott Copy Share Image
Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work… — Nigel Rees 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
Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War… — Patrick Cockburn Copy Share Image
The term ‘free market’ is really a euphemism. What the far right actually means by this term is ‘lawless market.’ In a… — Steve Kangas Copy Share Image
Euphemisms, like fashions, have their day and pass, perhaps to return at another time. Like the guests at a masquerade ball, they… — Freda Adler 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
Some kids get called 'bundles of joy' or 'slices of heaven' or 'dreams come true.' We got 'the fifty-fourth generation of DNA… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
To call yourself 'plus size' is just a euphemism for being fat. Life is much easier when you're thinner. Big is not… — Katie Hopkins Copy Share Image
As any sin passes through its stages from temptation, to toleration, to approval, its name is first euphemized, then avoided, then forgotten.… — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
The middles cleave to euphemisms not just because they're an aid in avoiding facts. They like them also because they assist their… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
“Well, I'm not sure the New York Times was consciously trying to trivialise me, but the effect of it is to put… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Medicinal Spirit, Inside Mirror Therapy becomes a harmony, and that harmony is built on levels, No one knows how to upscale another,… — John Shelton Jones Copy Share Image
Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Today, when death and old age are increasingly concealed behind euphemisms and comforting baby talk, and life is threatened with being smothered… — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
[Madness] happened so frequently. I think what I was most maddest about - and it's in the book [Speaking Freely: A Memoir]… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
The terms "idiot" and "lunatic" were acceptable diagnostic terms in England up until 1959. "Imbecile" and "feeble-minded person" were, likewise, listed as… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism. — Robert Hughes 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
Only in this town, where we make an industry out of creating euphemisms, can we have enough sugar to sugarcoat this nonsense. — Byron Dorgan Copy Share Image
Tact is kind; diplomacy is useful; euphemism is harmless and sometimes entertaining — Julian Burnside Copy Share Image
“Progressives' don’t just redefine (and valorize) deviancy; they insist on renaming it, too.” — Kathy Shaidle Copy Share Image
when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
![“[Madness] happened so frequently. I think what I was most maddest about - and it's in the book [Speaking Freely: A Memoir] - when the House and the Senate, back in 1984, were debating a bill that would - at least delay and maybe stop some of the ex - summary execution of disabled children…” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dbb/nat-hentoff-1615_bills_madness-happened-so-frequently-i-think-w_1571691.jpg)
