“ Some kids get called 'bundles of joy' or 'slices of heaven' or 'dreams come true.' We got 'the fifty-fourth generation of DNA experiments.' Doesn't have the same warm and fuzzy feel. But maybe I'm ove… James Patterson
“ 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 tim… Gore Vidal
“ Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the poet. Lenore Kandel
“ Progressives' don’t just redefine (and valorize) deviancy; they insist on renaming it, too. Kathy Shaidle
“ 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
“ How easy is murder when one calls it by a different name? How much easier is it for the conscience to condone “reaping” than “killing”—and when one knows that death isn’t the end, does it stop the kil… Neal Shusterman
“ She was appalled by West Egg’s raw vigour that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that eroded its inhabitants along a short-cut from nothing to nothing. She saw something aw… F. Scott Fitzgerald
