- Homeland
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cloak Quotes
On what gets hidden, and what it costs.
This page collects quotes using the cloak as a metaphor for concealment, including power exercised in secret under the cloak of national security. See also our Mystery quotes.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- Folded
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
- Flung
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
The alt-right is working hard to cloak its desire to create chaos in the streets as free speech. They say they want to air their views, but it's about provoking violent reactions. We all can easily see that this is not about free speech.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times.
- Freedom Of Speech
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- Nov 07, 2020
The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just think that for a lot of people - not to take the focus off of myself - that feeling of imminent dread, like a cloak of black dust, was always around me.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so much easier for me to get up and be someone else than expressing my own thoughts and feelings. There's definitely something about creating a cloak of a character that helped me deal with my shyness.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see more people taking on the cloak of accountability, more people tiring of the blame game. If we are all connected and our actions in Australia affect us in Istanbul, then we are all to blame and all to be healers. We can't blame lawyers anymore for the 'liability' vs. common sense imbalance.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
- Injustice
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- Nov 07, 2020