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Tag Name "Euphemism" (46)

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We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism.
Robert Hughes
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In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.
George Orwell
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You are a manipulator. I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.
J.R. Ward
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Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them upon his neighbors under the hypocritical cloak of Christian love or the sense of social responsibility or any of the other beautiful euphemisms for unconscious urges to personal power.
Carl Jung
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Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.
Nigel Rees
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She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could never have an intelligent discussion on the subject. People were either too young or too old, or else they didn't have time.
Tove Jansson
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Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.
Jacques Attali
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Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server.
Evgeny Morozov
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We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism
Robert Hughes
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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 a nice euphemism. Say 'She's mowed her secret garden' or 'She's cleared the way to the Promised Land.' Because that's what it is, right?
Tia Carrere
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I've never been a fan of euphemism.
Jo Brand
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The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is.
George Carlin
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In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
George Orwell
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Tact is kind diplomacy is useful euphemism is harmless and sometimes entertaining
Julian Burnside
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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
Gore Vidal
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Gratitude is a euphemism for resentment.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.
George P. Shultz
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Euphemisms are for the differently brained.
Spider Robinson
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.
Plato
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in terms of the biology of the planet, development is a euphemism for destruction.
Helen Caldicott
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To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit.
Al Gore
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The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.
Ashley Montagu
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