a polite word QUOTES

1 " One gratifying aspect of our rise to some prominence is that, for the first time in my memory, we, ‘our side,’ had captured a crucial word from the enemy . . . ‘Libertarians’ . . . had long been simply a polite word for left-wing anarchists, that is for anti-private property anarchists, either of the communist or syndicalist variety. But now we had taken it over... "

― Murray N. Rothbard , The Betrayal Of The American Right

2 " Discretion is a polite word for hypocrisy.
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― Dianne Harman

3 " Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery. "

― Terry Goodkind , The Pillars of Creation (Sword of Truth, #7)

4 " Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. "

― E.E. Cummings