When somebody wishes to wage a social war against what all normal people have regarded as a social decency, the very first thing he does is to find some artificial term that shall sound relatively decent.

-June 30, 1928, Illustrated London News
[quoted in Gilbert, September/October 2026]

It is an old moral, and obvious enough, that the fashion of this world passes away; yet we often find it hard to believe about the fashion of this age....we are not always eager to realize that all which we call necessary may some day be called nonsense.

-Chaucer (1932)