Quotes About Transparency

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I don't sit in my room and hide the whole time. I think people know my spirit is real.

I was being honest - I have nothing to hide. All I do, all the time, with everybody, is tell them what I am thinking, what I am feeling.

Everyone should say what they wanted. It saved time.

A good government is one with many information channels, those that give real-time information.

Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything

I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and then they would be honest so much earlier.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Ich würde von jedermann, ob hoch oder niedrig, verlangen, dass er mir einfach und geradezu mit dem kommt, was er mir erzählen will, oder aber seine Geschichte zusammenrollt und sich darauf setzt und Ruhe gibt. Übertretungen dieses Gesetzes müssten mit dem Tode bestraft werden.

I fancy you may tell the truth about yourself. But all of it? The black truth, which we all know ourselves in our heats, or only the whity-brown truth of the pericardium, or the nice, whitened truth of the shirtfront? Even you won't tell the black heart's-truth. The man who could do it would be famed to the last day the sun shown upon.

So singularly clear was the water, that where it was only twenty or thirty feet deep the bottom was so perfectly distinct that the boat seemed floating in the air!

It is strong language, but true. None of us could _live_ with an habitual truthteller; but thank goodness none of us has to.

We were on the north shore. There, the rocks on the bottom are sometimes gray, sometimes white. This gives the marvelous transparency of the water a fuller advantage than it has elsewhere on the lake. We usually pushed out a hundred yards or so from shore, and then lay down on the thwarts, in the sun, and let the boat drift by the hour whither it would. We seldom talked. It

If I had had a drinking problem, I would have hidden it, but I didn't so I didn't.

We admit to almost everything, and the almost is all that counts.

I'm spoiling the ending, not only of the entire book, but of this particular piece of it. I have given you two events in advance, because I don't have much interest in building mystery. Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me.

Nothing squandered, nothing cloaked.

El ente existente "se" tiene a la vista tan sólo en la medida en que se ha hecho cooriginariamente transparente en su estar en medio del mundo y en el coestar con los otros, como momentos constitutivos de su existencia. A la inversa, la falta de transparencia del Dasein no proviene primaria ni únicamente de autoilusiones "egocéntricas", sino también del desconocimiento del mundo. (Ser y tiempo - 1927)

Instead of submitting to surreptitious cruelty in thousands of dark jail cells and on countless shadowed street corners, he would force his oppressor to commit his brutality openly--in the light of day--with the rest of the world looking on.

Over recent years, it has been extraordinary to hear the Sinn Fein leadership declaring to British and American politicians, as well as the media, that they had no knowledge of the decisions taken by the IRA Army Council, while both Adams and McGuinness were Council members. The

I believe you are a man of your word, and a white man, and I'll tell you the whole story.

It's just as well for two fellows to know the worst of one another before they begin to live together.

Tell us the truth, for there lies your only hope of safety.