Quotes About Transparency

Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

and the moral of that is —"Be what you would seem to be"— or if you'd like it put more simply —"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

Oh, I didn't think it wise to hide it. Might not be able to find it again, I say, cheerily. It's sitting in plain view on your chair in the great hall. I do hope that was the best place for it.

den a lot of times myself," she confessed.

Once you permit individuals to maneuver in secret, unasked, and for their own purposes, there is chaos.

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

und die halbe Wahrheit, die vorgibt, die ganze zu sein, ist schlimmer als die schlimmste Lüge.

You were created for truth. So no matter how frightening it may be at the time, we must always be truthful with ourselves.

We live in what's called an open society, which of course means they open our emails, open our phone records, and open our medical records.

We will not let governments off the hook. We will look to civil society to help us, to pin governments, to what they have committed to here. And we will report on it.

Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability.

Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause.

I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.

Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up.

Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.

Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication.

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things.

Secret courts making secret rulings on secret laws, and companies flagrantly lying to consumers about the insecurity of their products and services, undermine the very foundations of our society.

You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.

Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society's or culture's desire to be more public. And that's a sign of a healthy or energetic culture.

True honesty is the willingness to stand completely exposed, allowing the world to do what it may, and say what it will, only so you may know who you are - beyond all ideas.

I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there.

To be spiritual is to be genuine in everything you say and do, come what may.

Spiritual balance is to be straight with yourself.