Quotes about Euphemism

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The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs. — Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood
How is it possible to have a civil war? — George Carlin
Some kids get called 'bundles of joy' or 'slices of heaven' or 'dreams come true.' We got 'the fifty-fourth generation o — James Patterson, Angel
Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness. — Dejan Stojanovic
When my mother passed away several years ago—well, wait a minute. Actually, she didn’t ‘pass away.’ She died. Something — Steve Allen, How to Be Funny
How easy is murder when one calls it by a different name? How much easier is it for the conscience to condone “reaping” — Neal Shusterman
You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum — Terry Pratchett, Johnny and the Bomb
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you — Gore Vidal
It was starting to seem to her that being "forward-thinking" too often involved avoiding any kind of thought at all - es — Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue
*Prostitution* is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phrases—doublethink, th — Christopher Hitchens
Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted s — Christopher Hitchens, For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports
In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to fuck. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Progressives' don’t just redefine (and valorize) deviancy; they insist on renaming it, too. — Kathy Shaidle
Medicinal Spirit, Inside MirrorTherapy becomes a harmony, and that harmony is built on levels,No one knows how to upscal — John Shelton Jones, Awakening Kings and Princes Volume I: Sacred Knowledge to Nourish the Mentality, Support Spiritual Growth, Learning the Light, and Progressing to Become a Master Lover While Embracing Desire
Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the — Lenore Kandel, Collected Poems of Lenore Kandel
Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events — Patrick Cockburn
When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict, of — Matthew Scully, Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating. — John Green, Looking for Alaska
Edward had a personal horror of violence and never endorsed or excused it, though in a documentary he made about the con — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir