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Euphemism is a euphemism for lying  (Euphemism Quotes) “God works in mysterious ways” is a euphemism for “stop asking hard questions”  (Euphemism Quotes) It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating  (Euphemism Quotes) I’ve never been a fan of euphemism  (Euphemism Quotes) "Women's fashion" is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women  (Euphemism Quotes) Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness  (Euphemism Quotes) Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server  (Euphemism Quotes) Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition  (Euphemism Quotes) Global governance is just a euphemism for global government  (Euphemism Quotes) Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality  (Euphemism Quotes) Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats  (Euphemism Quotes) Kreeft calls the word interesting: that all purpose meaningless euphemism  (Euphemism Quotes) The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is  (Euphemism Quotes) Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It’s a losing game, but we keep on trying.  (Euphemism Quotes) Political correctness is euphemism for fear to speak truth to authority  (Euphemism Quotes) Women’s fashion’ is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women  (Euphemism Quotes) As any sin passes through its stages from temptation, to toleration, to approval, its name is first euphemized, then avoided, then forgotten. A colleague tells me that some of his fellow legal scholars call child molestation intergenerational intimacy: that’s euphemism. A good-hearted editor tried to talk me out of using the term sodomy: that’s avoidance. My students don’t know the word fornication at all: that’s forgetfulness.  (Euphemism Quotes) When you say a wall, you mean a wall. You want to build a fence, you say fence. You don’t use it as a euphemism for a virtual, say surveillance from hot air balloons that are floating over the border which some people have advocated.  (Euphemism Quotes) 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 health. So that’s why Planned Parenthood has - nobody really thought  (Euphemism Quotes) In terms of the biology of the planet, development is a euphemism for destruction  (Euphemism Quotes) Bad as euphemism is, however, indirection is worse. I notice that a writer in a recent magazine gives this advice to budding newspaper men  (Euphemism Quotes) Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians  (Euphemism Quotes) Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table  (Euphemism Quotes) A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It’s disorderly. It’s dishonest and it’s not journalism  (Euphemism Quotes) The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism  (Euphemism Quotes) Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It’s a losing game, but we keep on trying  (Euphemism Quotes) When I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them  (Euphemism Quotes) The intangibles are a euphemism for we have no idea what we’re looking for but we know it when we see it  (Euphemism Quotes) 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  (Euphemism Quotes)