Quotes About Transparency

As ugly as the truth is, it's even uglier when someone says out loud what you've been thinking to yourself.

Secrecy is an instrument of conspiracy; it ought not, therefore, to be the system of a regular government.

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

We need to be very careful. Democracy is the issue, and democracy ought to be the means by which we decide these issues, rather than secret negotiations resulting in a fait accompli being presented to us.

He asks, "how hard would it be to go a week without Google? Or, to up the ante, without Facebook, Amazon, Skype, Twitter, Apple, eBay, and Google?"33 Wu is putting his finger on a disquieting new reality—that the new communication medium a younger generation gravitated to because of its promise of openness, transparency, and deep social collaboration masks another persona more concerned with ringing up profit by advancing a networked Commons.

When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?

idea that Washington would work better if there were TV cameras monitoring every conversation gets it exactly wrong…. The lack of opportunities for honest dialogue and creative give-and-take lies at the root of today's dysfunction.

Only when multiple compromises have been made and a deal has been reached can it be subjected to public scrutiny, that is, made transparent.

since if government officials know that all of their ideas and positions may be made public, it inhibits openness, candor, and trust in communications. The predictable result will be for government officials to commit ever less information to writing, either in print or in the form of emails. Instead, they will limit important matters to oral conversation. But that decreases the opportunity to carefully lay out positions.

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

Until we come clean about our recent history, there's no way to move forward and return to the representative democracy that our forefathers intended America to be.

The time for hidden truths is over.

First of all, try to have the highest of ethics and to be open and truthful about things, not hiding. If you have to hide something for company reasons, at least explain what you're doing. Don't mislead people. Know in your heart that you are a good person with good goals because that will carry over to your own self-confidence and your belief in your engineering abilities. Always seek excellence: make your product better than the average person would.

Sometimes we are all so afraid to be honest with ourselves because we know that honesty will lead to somewhere.

If you are honest with yourself, your life will be so much more pleasant.

There are certain rules to be observed when writing about our parents. We can only describe them as transparent figures with golden haloes, smiling down at us from heaven, large flag billowing in the breeze optional, just before the end credits roll.

he'll have to cut out all of his gambling associations. He'll have to tell the court who got this money and what was done with it. He'll have to quit acting the part of a spoiled kid with an indulgent sister, and learn to stand on his own two feet, and it may make a man of him.

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

Tell me everything at once.

Desconfio de todas as pessoas francas e simples, principalmente quando suas histórias são coerentes.

Yes. But we really ought to know it. How it's run. How it works. Who are the crooks and the tyrants and how to get rid of them.

Where there is nothing left to hide, there is nothing left to seek.

She says, "I am so sick of the excuses

While emotional transparency is touted everywhere as the crux of modern intimacy, I am amazed at the paucity of real sexual communication between partners. Part of my work in post-infidelity involves direct coaching as to how, why, where, and when to talk about sex.