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Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
Hiding and waiting
For the worst
Or the end
An individual's refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.
Concealment is the foe of tranquility.
A corruption of intentions.
In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?
Attack by Stratagem
Rush to danger; wind up nowhere.
We pursue that which retreats from us.
The thrill of being ignored!
I don't duck or dodge anybody.
To avoid discovery I stay on the run.
To discover things for myself, I stay on the run ...
To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
Foxhunting ... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.
In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.
To eat or be eaten, to escape or be taken ... a matter of utmost importance to the one concerned, yet it happens all the time and we don't even notice.
You evaded my question." "Then perhaps you had better assume that I intended to evade it.
Words, it gave a rather convincing impression of trying to elude pursuit. The dry, faintly ironic delivery
Abdicating-Decision-Making
Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed for ever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.
People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.
Things denied, things untold, things hidden and disguised.
Escape is a consumer goods like another
Camouflage with a defensive grace and bounce back with joy.
The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel.
One can evade a danger that one recognizes,' wrote historian Friedrich Zipfel, 'but a police working in the dark becomes uncanny. Nowhere does one feel safe from it. While not omnipresent, it could appear, search arrest. The worried citizen no longer knows whom he ought to trust.
A stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt.
What one side considers a defense the other considers a threat. In the vortex of the struggle, each is trapped by his own fearful outlook and by his fear of the other; each moves and is moved within a circle both vicious and lethal.
shadow of authority
There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.
You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.
Escape is the byword - forwards, backwards, or sideways - into alcohol, busyness, good works, passivity, fantasy, or even madness. For the reality of the present and the immediate future seem even more frightening today
a wonder you've evaded the government for so long - but you can't hide now, not when your own family or friends are at risk. I have no sympathy for a criminal, I remind myself harshly. Just a score to settle.
The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient
Defeat the enemies strategy.
You know, here, it's not forbidden to escape. It's forbidden to get caught.
A fault is fostered by concealment.
A strong pursuit, give no time for the enemy to think, take advantage of victory, uproot him, cut off his escape route.
Between the difficulties, one hides the opportunity
The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so easily over-reached as when he is contriving to over-reach others.
Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
I should learn to be more craftily evasive, I thought: a bad evasion is tantamount to telling the truth.
The enemy you flee is not exterior to yourself
Another form on sagacity and self-defence consists in reacting as seldom as possible and withdrawing from situations and relationships in which one would be condemned as it were to suspend ones 'freedom', ones initiative, and become a mere reagent.
When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue.
When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would with eagerness rush into if no such external impediments were to be feared.
If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is obliged to rescue.
Disobey. Defy. Take your own time. Fly.
Ingenuity and creativity, even for a defeating case of two steps forward and one backward, applied strategically can covert a loss into gain.
For instinct dictates our duty and the intellect supplies us with pretexts for evading it.
Everyone's running from something.
It is better to avoid than to run, better to run than to de-escalate, better to de-escalate than to fight, better to fight than to die.
When he was younger, he used the slightest opportunity to slip away from people, without his being able to understand very clearly why he did so: a longing to break free and to breathe in the fresh air?
Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.
The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.
In the chaos of sentiments and passions which defend a barricade, there is something of everything; there is bravery, youth, honor, enthusiasm, the ideal, conviction, the eager fury of the gamester, and above all, intervals of hope.
Maybe that means "letting them get away with it" -- but maybe it also means letting *you* get away *from* it.
Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful.
Impunity: it's always impunity that gets you dancing. What did I care about
being ridiculous? I was on my way to earning a superior kind of impunity, and
nobody knew it.
I guard my existence, sheltered by distance. Hidden and masked I parade, everyone oblivious to the grand charade.
In a world of fugitives the one who stays home will seem to be running away
Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.
When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.
Are you running away from something?
For a long time, we have known that sometimes it serves you best simply to work around an obstacle, to make invisible what you are tired of seeing or don't understand.
The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior.
The greater number of a man's errors come before him disguised under the specious form of necessity; then, after error has been committed in a moment of excitement, of delirium, or of fear, we see that we might have avoided and escaped it.
The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue
I don't want to hide. If I get arrested, I get arrested.
PASSIVE PAVISSE-
ANAGRAM: Shield yourself from aggressors - Walk away without acknowledgement
Veiling truth in mystery.
One day I shall write a little book of conduct myself, and I shall call it Social Problems of the Unsociable. And the root problem, beneath a hundred varying manifestions, is How to Escape. How to escape, that is, at those times, be they few or frequent, when you want to keep yourself to yourself.
Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected.
Never run from the enemy, tackle them
I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair, ...
Blame is the coward's retreat.
They think it frees them, but it confines them ...
Blame is also the coward's warden.
taking unfair advantage of folks of good will and had become
A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.
For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape.
TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.
Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
To use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.
Hiding is for amateurs.
...But even then you have to reckon with a criminal's chief vice.'
'What is that?'
' Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail.
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
What is privacy if not for invading?
It frequently happens that offenses are committed when the offender is not aware of it. Something he has said or done is misconstrued or misunderstood. The offended one treasures in his heart the offense, adding to it such other things as might give fuel to the fire and justify his conclusions ...
In fiction, every treachery and setback appears to serve some end: the characters learn and grow and come into their own. In life, it is not always clear that the hijacking of our plans is quite so provident or benign.
To lie to yourself, and thereby to everyone else.
An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force.
Protect and Survive
A crime which is the crime of many none avenge.
Sometimes, people run to see if anybody will come after them.
Defending oneself by hiding behind the rules was a clever trick, like using a mouse to stampede the enemy's elephants and causing them to trample him to death.
The disruption of the broadcast. Beetee's glad we find the plan hard to follow, because then our enemies will, too. "Like your electricity trap in the arena?" I ask. "Exactly. And see how well that worked out?" says Beetee. Well ... not
Force is camouflaged by consents; the consent is brought about the methods of mass suggestion.
I flee what I can't fight. What can only do me harm.
At a better pace Slower and more calculated No chance of escape
One crime has to be concealed by another.