Quotes about Euphemism
In the entertaining story in 1 Kings 18: 20—40, the prophet Elijah* teases and mocks the priests of the Canaanite god Baal when their god does not show up for a divine duel with Yahweh. At one point Elijah even suggests that perhaps Baal needed to use the restroom, which is to say he isn't a god at all. I'm not kidding. He has wandered away in verse 27 is a euphemism for going potty.
— Peter Enns
Terminological inexactitude
— Winston Churchill
Totalitarians are fond of saying that Christianity is the enemy of the State—a euphemistic way of saying an enemy of themselves.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whites and a left-wing construct, one begins to understand why the election of a black president has had no impact on most blacks or on the left.
— Dennis Prager
Political correctness … is a euphemism for 'that which offends the left.
— Dennis Prager
The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.
— Ashley Montagu