Covert Quotes

• Nos enfrentamos en todo el mundo a una conspiración monolítica y despiadada que se basa principalmente en medios encubiertos para ampliar su esfera de influencia: infiltración en lugar de invasión, subversión en lugar de elecciones, intimidación en lugar de libre elección, guerrillas nocturnas en lugar de ejércitos diurnos...".

  John F. Kennedy

  Media, Ejército, Noche

  Discurso a los Editores de Periódicos Americanos, pronunciado el 27 de abril de 1961, Hotel Waldorf Astoria, New York.

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• El líder trabaja al descubierto y el jefe a cubierto. El líder dirige y el jefe conduce.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Boss, Outstanding Leaders

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• Hablo de paz, mientras la enemistad encubierta bajo la sonrisa de la seguridad hiere al mundo

  William Shakespeare

  Safety, Enmity, World

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.449, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

  Ralph Ellison

  Preparation, Hibernation, Definitions

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.38, Vintage

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• In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.

  Breyten Breytenbach

  Reality, Spotlight, Opaque

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• Ni siquiera sabría -y pasé tres años en la CIA- cómo se iniciaría un programa de acción encubierta en un lugar como Irán. Sería extraordinariamente difícil.

  Frank Carlucci

  Iran, Years, Would Be

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• In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public. The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.

  Frank Church

  Pasado, Medios de comunicación, Organización

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• The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.

  Arundhati Roy

  Order, Community, India

  "Arundhati Roy On the Indian Elections, Her Support for the Iraqi Resistance & the Privatization of War". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.commondreams.org. May 20, 2004.

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• You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.

  Arundhati Roy

  Hypocrisy, Shy, Politics

  "Arundhati Roy On the Indian Elections, Her Support for the Iraqi Resistance & the Privatization of War". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. May 19, 2004.

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• In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Church, Partnership, States

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1974). “Freedom Under Siege: The Impact of Organized Religion on Your Liberty and Your Pocketbook”, Tarcher

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• I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.

  Bianca Jagger

  War, Law, Nicaragua

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• I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot bear to see them at all, that we recoil and hide our eyes, and no one has ever cringed at the sight of a soybean factory. I also know phony arguments when I hear them--unbridled appetite passing itself off as altruism, and human arrogance in the guise of solemn 'duty.' We must, as C.S. Lewis advises, 'reject with detestation that covert propoganda for cruelty which tries to drive mercy out of the world by calling it names such as 'Humanitarianism' and 'Sentimentality.

  Matthew Scully

  Eye, Sight, Names

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• Cuando dos hombres de ciencia discrepan, no invocan el brazo secular; esperan a tener más pruebas para decidir la cuestión, porque, como hombres de ciencia, saben que ninguno de los dos es infalible. Pero cuando dos teólogos discrepan, como no hay criterios a los que ninguno pueda apelar, no queda más remedio que el odio mutuo y la apelación abierta o encubierta a la fuerza.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Two, Issues

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can; but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Care, Noise, Affection

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.574

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• I think it's something that the citizenry needs to be vigilant about - participating in democracy, and that includes issues like what's going on and how much secrecy and transparency there should be. That's an on-going thing - in a democracy you want checks and balances and oversight, but you need a covert agency to protect the country. It's a very tricky balance and I think it changes as the world changes and I think we all need to be mindful of that.

  Matt Damon

  País, Pensamiento, Temas

  "The Good Shepherd - Matt Damon interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Confused, Missionary, Action

  "Return to Kurdistan" by Jason Burke, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2002.

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• Los Estados canallas nunca resultan ser los parias que se les considera. Sólo son capaces de causar, o al menos amenazar con causar, el caos porque disfrutan del apoyo encubierto -generalmente mediante transferencias de tecnología- de una o más grandes potencias dentro del círculo encantado de los "buenos" globales.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Media, Tecnología, Círculos

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• See, here's a shadow found; the human nature Is made th' umbrella to the Deity, To catch the sunbeams of thy just Creator; Beneath this covert thou may'st safely lie.

  Francis Quarles

  Lying, Shadow, May

  Francis Quarles (1777). “Emblems”, p.87

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• The media will spend weeks going through pay stubs for Bush's National Guard service in Alabama in the waning days of war, but if Kerry tells them exotic tales of covert missions into Cambodia directed by Richard Nixon, they don't even bother to fact-check who was president in December 1968.

  Ann Coulter

  War, Media, President

  "Ballad Of The French Berets". www.anncoulter.com. August 18, 2004.

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• Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.

  Zack Snyder

  Government, Secret, Missions

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• The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly absorbed by fictions, and thus the cry in the poem may come to sound louder, more urgent, more real than the cry in the street outside. The death in the novel may move us more potently than the death in the next room. Thus there may be a covert, betraying link between the cultivation of aesthetic response and the potential of personal inhumanity.

  George Steiner

  Real, Moving, Risk

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.31, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.

  Alain de Botton

  Envy, Trying, Diaries

  Twitter post from Dec 29, 2012

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• There's a widespread notion that children are open, that the truth about their inner selves just seeps out of them. That's all wrong. No one is more covert than a child, and no one has a greater need to be that way. It's a response to a world that's always using a can opener to open them up to see what's inside, wondering whether it ought to be replaced with a more useful sort of preserves.

  Peter Høeg

  Children, Self, Needs

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.58, Macmillan

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• Uncontrolled or covert napping, however, is still probably very common. One need only move through a building surreptitiously and peek at people to find some subset of sleep at any given time.

  David F. Dinges

  Moving, Sleep, People

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• Cordings hace los mejores abrigos, panas, moleskins y todos los accesorios. Cuando necesito un abrigo, lo compro en Cordings en lugar de hacérmelo yo mismo, y soy sastre, así que debería saberlo. Cordings es, sin duda, el mejor en lo que hace; producen una calidad que supera a cualquier otra empresa de su clase en Gran Bretaña.

  Mark Powell

  Duda, Calidad, Necesidades

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