Quotes About Transparency

The best defense against bullshit is vigilance. So if you smell something, say something.

In effetti quando faceva compere in un grande magazzino i vestiti e gli utensili che non le sembravano connotanti risultavano sempre i più costosi nel loro genere. Chiaramente, se eri abbastanza ricco, potevi comprare la trasparenza.

Noriu tikr? dalyk? arba nenoriu nieko.

It is always better to clear the air, even if the air often stinks.

Emotional transparency as opposed to emotional expression—saying what you feel instead of acting it out—is key to creating a healthy team and cultural dynamic. The emotion isn't unnecessary, only the drama is! The

Try to live so that you can always tell the truth.

She always saw through him, as if he were just another window. She always felt that she knew everything about him that could be known. Not that he was simple, but that he was knowable, like a list of errands, like an encyclopedia.

The power brokers of factory farming know that their business model depends on consumers not being able to see (or hear about) what they do.

It is always possible to wake someone from sleep, but no amount of noise will wake someone who is pretending to be asleep.

I should perhaps like others have astonished you with strange improbable tales; but I rather chose to relate plain matter of fact in the simplest manner and style; because my principal design was to inform you, and not to amuse you.

Can a lie be taken as communication? I tend to deny it. A lie is the opposite of communication. It means specifically to withhold the other's share and portion of reality, to prevent his participation in reality.

What Americans value and strive for is straight talking, plain saying. They don't go in for ambiguity or dissembling, the etiquette of hidden meaning, the skill of the socially polite lie.

A man should be honest and up front about his intentions towards a woman, he should respect said woman and be considerate of her feelings.

What is plain should be said plainly.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

Para decidir si algo está 'bien' o 'mal', tenemos una regla muy sencilla: la redacción debe ser verdadera. Debemos escribir lo que vemos, lo que oímos, lo que hacemos.

Pour décider si c'est "Bien" ou "Pas bien", nous avons une règle très simple: la composition doit être vraie. Nous devons décrire ce qui est, ce que nous voyons, ce que nous entendons, ce que nous faisons.

The most effective way to revive a functional democracy is to do what we have always done; transfer decision-making from the unaccountable institutions: monarchs, priestly castes, military juntas, political or economic dictatorships, or modern corporations, and bring it back to the public arena.

A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.

Lorsqu'on ne peut attaquer le message, on attaque le messager.

We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

Whenever people say they hate to say something, they actually love to say it.