A Quote by Paul Johnson

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

Paul Johnson

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Conceal Device Euphemism Horrors Human Reality

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Paul Johnson
British - Journalist
Born: November 2, 1928

Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive

Kate Burridge

But : We're still human. Human because we keep on battling against all these horrors, the horrors caused and not caused by us. We battle not in order to stay alive, that would be too materalistic, for we are body and spirit, but in order to love each other.

Kathy Acker

Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.

Alan Dershowitz

Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept the perverted principle of specialization, according to which some are paid to write about the horrors of the world and human responsibility and others to deal with those horrors and bear the human responsibility for them.

Vaclav Havel

Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition.

Paul Kenneth Keller

The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is.

George Carlin

Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.

Albert Einstein

Euphemism is a euphemism for lying.

Bobbie Gentry

Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's enslavement and all the horrors it entails.

Emma Goldman

The purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people.

Louis Stokes

O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal!

Friedrich Nietzsche

The reality is, cellphones have to be used safely. They are today like cars and trucks - we can't live without them, but we certainly wouldn't give a car or truck to a toddler to drive. Why are we thinking it's perfectly okay to give a device that the World Health Organization has said is a "possible human carcinogen" to infants and toddlers, and for that matter, schoolchildren?

Devra Davis

Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Goal' is a human drama. It is a triumph of human spirit where football is the device through which the characters actualise themselves and find victory in their lives.

Vivek Agnihotri

Considering what human beings do and have done to human beings (and to other living things as well) ... I can never imagine what the devil people think computers can add to the horrors.