40 Quotes About Euphemism
- Author Christopher Hitchens
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Edward had a personal horror of violence and never endorsed or excused it, though in a documentary he made about the conflict he said that actions like the bombing of pilgrims at Tel Aviv airport 'did more harm than good,' which I remember thinking was (a) euphemistic and (b) a slipshod expression unworthy of a professor of English.
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- Author J.R. Ward
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You are a manipulator.I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to fuck.
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- Author Winston S. Churchill
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Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.
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- Author Terry Pratchett
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You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.
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- Author Noam Chomsky
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Well, I'm not sure the New York Times was consciously trying to trivialise me, but the effect of it is to put everything in the same category as the gossip you read in the magazines you pick up at supermarket counters. I was asked, for example, why I thought there were so many euphemisms for genitalia. It's not a serious question. Whatever the purpose of such a tone is, the effect is to make it appear that anyone who departs from orthodox political doctrine is in some ways laughable.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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*Prostitution* is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from.
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- Author Matthew Scully
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When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict, of unsettled hearts, a sign that something has gone wrong in our moral reasoning.
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- Author Jordan Sonnenblick
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It's amazing--my parents call everything a discussion. If I were standing across the street, firing a bazooka at my mother, while my father was launching mortar back at me, and Jeffery was charging down the driveway with a grenade in his teeth, my parents would say we should stop having this public "discussion".
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