Understatement Quotes
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Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.
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More Understatement Quotes
The dogma of multiculturalism has left a secular Europe very slow to address the looming problem of religious extremism among its immigrants. The people who speak most sensibly about the threat that Islam poses to Europe are actually fascists . To say that this does not bode well for liberalism is an understatement: It does not bode well for the future of civilization .
sam harris— "The End of Liberalism?", Los Angeles Times, 18 September 2006.
I predict that Anonymous and entities like it will become far more significant over the next few years than is expected by most of our similarly irrelevant pundits and this will, no doubt, turn out to be just as much of an understatement as anything else that has been written on the subject. … This is the future , whether one approves or not, and the failure on the part of governments and media alike to understand , and contend with the rapid change now afoot, ought to remind everyone concerned why it is that this movement is necessary in the first place.
— Anonymous representative of Anonymous (group), in "Anonymous and the global correction", Aljazeera (16 February 2011)
Richard [Carrier] takes the extremist position that Jesus of Nazareth never even existed, that there was no such person in history. This is a position that is so extreme that to call it marginal would be an understatement; it doesn't even appear on the map of contemporary New Testament scholarship.
william lane craig— "Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?" debate with Richard Carrier, 2009
To say that Foxe's Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church (to give the Book of Martyrs its official title) was hugely influential on English thought during the later sixteenth and seventeenth centuries would be a gross understatement of the case. Only the Bible was read more frequently and more avidly.
john foxe— Meic Pearse The Gods of War (Nottingham: InterVarsity Press, 2007) p. 102.
