Covert Tactics Quotes

Diplomacy … means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies

The best way to know and destroy an enemy is to pretend to become his friend.

I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.

Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy. In military science this is called Psy-Ops, for your info.

The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent.

Satan...[plans] to destroy liberty and freedom ~ economic, political, and religious, and to set up in place thereof the greatest, most widespread, and most complete tyranny that has ever oppressed men. He is working under such perfect disguise that many do not recognize either him or his methods.

I think it's a typical hidden agenda of the Liberal party... They had the courts do it for them, they put the judges in they wanted, then they failed to appeal -- failed to fight the case in court... I think the federal government deliberately lost this case in court and got the change to the law done through the back door.

The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation

We also have to work, though, sort of the dark side, if you will. We've got to spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world. A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies... That's the world these folks operate in, and so it's going to be vital for us to use any means at our disposal, basically, to achieve our objective.

The left can't win elections without lying and without camouflage and without masks hiding who they really are. So to get their way, they have to bully.

Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.

How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!

Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.