40 Quotes About Euphemism
- Author George Carlin
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How is it possible to have a civil war?
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- Author Jasper Fforde
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Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.
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- Author David Correia
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Language, George Orwell reminds us, is always political. It can be used to “make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.” The euphemism, he wrote, is the weapon of choice: "Defenseless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification.
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- Author Dejan Stojanovic
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Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.
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- Author Dylan Thomas
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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.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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True freedom of speech includes the freedom to call someone a bitch.
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- Author Kristin Cashore
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It was starting to seem to her that being "forward-thinking" too often involved avoiding any kind of thought at all - especially about things that might benefit from a great deal of thinking.
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- Author Stephen Arnott
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Venus Mount
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- Author Steve Allen
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When my mother passed away several years ago—well, wait a minute. Actually, she didn’t ‘pass away.’ She died. Something about that verb, ‘to pass away’ always sounds to me as if someone just drifted through the wallpaper. No, my mother did not pass away. She definitely died.
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