All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress

All euphemisms are dishonest, but many are designed to make life easier

A non-standard dialect is as valid communication system as the standard

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

People have lost their sense of humor. In former times, we constantly made jokes about different races.

As soon as anybody puts anything on film, it automatically has a point of view, and it's somebody else's point of view, and it's impossible for it to be yours.

It's kind of dangerous to cut in the camera, but that's the only way I know how to direct.

What's wrong with selfishness and egotism? We live to die smiling, don't we?

Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing.

Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.

Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.

As simplistic as this may sound, commitment is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.

We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy.