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Quotes About Clandestine

There I was, creeping down the sweet garbage alley to break into the restaurant….
~ Maureen Johnson
Slavery and other forms of bondage, of course, have not been obliterated from the face of the earth. As a result of recent publicity about the trafficking of people for labor and prostitution, one sometimes hears the statistically illiterate and morally obtuse claim that nothing has changed since the 18th century, as if there were no difference between a clandestine practice in a few parts of the world and an authorized practice everywhere in the world.
~ Steven Pinker
The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people's private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise.
~ Jose Serrano
I've always been baffled by critics of the CIA, who are horrified that it does illegal things. That is the purpose of an intelligence service: to perform illegal acts.
~ Charles McCarry
I didn't come into politics to have to deal with the issue of clandestine entry, illegal working, or an asylum system that allows a free run for right-wing bigots.
~ David Blunkett
Intelligence services exist to do things that are illegal abroad. They exist to tell lies.
~ David Ignatius
it is only to stress the fact that the difference between a clandestine literature and no literature equals the difference between one and zero.
~ Hannah Arendt
The first woman handed him over to the second. Tag-team style. 'Mr Caufield is waiting for you in conference room C,' the second woman said, her voice low, as if conference room C were a clandestine chamber in the bowels of the Pentagon.
~ Harlan Coben
A jej makija? wygl?da? na zrobiony w ciemnej szafie kulkami do paintballu.
~ Harlan Coben
I consider myself Istanbul's storyteller. My subject matter is my town. I consider it my job to explore the hidden patterns of my city's clandestine corners, its shady, mysterious places, the things I love.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Lenin and Stalin created the idiosyncratic Soviet system in the image of their ruthless little circle of conspirators before the Revolution. Indeed much of the tragedy of Leninism-Stalinism is comprehensible only if one realizes that the Bolsheviks continued to behave in the same clandestine style whether they formed the government of the world's greatest empire in the Kremlin or an obscure little cabal in the backroom of a Tiflis tavern.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
There would never be anything but this. Stolen moments, stolen kisses, a secret oasis.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
It's hardly a news flash that a secret, clandestine intelligence agency might resist giving out information about its operations when not not legally required to do so.
~ Benjamin Wittes
On the other hand, to conduct oneself secretly when the conditions do not call for it, to avoid working with the non-communist masses and therefore refrain from taking a leading role in political work, to operate as an isolated clandestine organization and refuse to see the masses as the motive force of history.
~ Joseph Stalin
surreptitiously watching
~ Julia London
Somebody knows.
~ Ally Carter
What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.
~ Michael Ondaatje
All these secret if-I-tell-you-about-them-I-have-to-kill-you-and-cut-your-head-off-and-stick-it-in-a-safe organizations
~ Bob Mayer
The Cellar had been founded by Presidential Decree in order to legally do the illegal.
~ Bob Mayer
When it came to the location of clandestine meetings, all operatives held to the acronym PACE. It stood for: primary, alternate, contingency, and emergency.
~ Brad Thor
You can read this diagonal script, can't you? Any man could. It says, "Stay away. This isn't what you want.
~ Kamila Shamsie
First as a peace activist in the late '60s, then as a political activist in the '70s, and then in joining the armed clandestine resistance movement that was developing in the '80s, I am guilty of revolutionary and anti-imperialist resistance.
~ Susan Rosenberg
We got there without being spotted. I pulled her in, then shut the door, pressing my back to it and exhaling like an epileptic pilot who'd just landed a cargo plane full of dynamite.
~ Brandon Sanderson
There's always another secret
~ Brandon Sanderson