Euthanasia, often debated in contemporary Hungary, can be understood in a historical context. The author finds it has been a part of organising the family along profit requirements, which was perfected in Nazi Germany. It is far from related to real solidarity and sympathy.

Noam Chomsky is a world famous professor of linguistics and a well known political activist. Nevertheless, it is an extraordinary enterprise to analyse his linguistic and political philosophies in the same paper.

Everybody has heard about steamlining the economy, a flexible labour market, and other similar phrases. The author claims it is deliberate manipulation when positively sounding words are used to describe negative phenomena.

Much of the phrases and expressions used in the mass media carry a value judgment that the speakers want to transfer towards the listeners. Thus, racism and exclusion can be coded in a language that otherwise appears civilised.

The collapse of Yugoslavia cannot be explained simply by the implementation of national self-determination, and cannot be considered a good thing at least because of the long civil war. It has been a combination of economic, cultural, foreign and domestic political reasons that caused the collapse of the federal state.