Euphemism Quote by Paul Kenneth Keller Download Open image “Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition.” — Paul Kenneth Keller ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Euphemism Faith Prejudice Religion Superstitions
Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Faith is one of those words that connotes, however irrationally, some kind of virtue in itself. — Louis J. Halle Copy Share Image
Faith is the act of seeing beyond the religion of possibility of the senses, the mind and the intelligence. — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
Faith is something that's - it's hard to articulate. It's - there's - it's not based on logic. — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Faith is something that's been created to help people get through life. — Judy Parfitt Copy Share Image
Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Faith is a devout belief in what one does not understand. — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand 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 embrace you! — 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 it reproductive… — 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 in fact… — 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 as well… — 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 constant swindling. Instead of automatic currencies based on gold, people are forced to take managed currencies based on guile. Instead of precious metals they hold paper promises whose value falls with every bureaucratic whim. And they are suavely… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share
When I heard you could get a disease from playing with your prairie dog, I thought, 'Wow, what a euphemism.' I thought playing with… — 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 clinical. Use… — 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 time I did my training in medical school to the end of my residency we were already seeing the transformation of adult onset diabetes into Type II, which is what we call it now, which from my perspective… — David Katz Copy Share
