Quotes About Transparency

What does a man have to do to be taken at his word in this town? Do I have to shoot someone? Because I am making a list!

The first night he slept with her, he took a washrag and a jug of wood alcohol to get rid of her makeup, saying he wanted to know what he was getting into.

If your goal is to polish up a fake person you can sell to a public you perceive as dumb, the unexamined life will do perfectly well, thank you.

People are straightforward enough, on the whole, till one starts to look for crooked motives, and then, oh boy, how crooked can they be!

the one who calls it by its name. To you

An open and capacious forehead gave indications of a good understanding, joined to great frankness of disposition.

Corruption Perceptions Index of the watchdog group Transparency International, reaching 154th out of 178 by 2011 (for the year 2010).

By mid-2010, a thirty-four-year-old attorney named Alexey Navalny was drawing tens of thousands of daily hits on his blog

Whatever your reason is for talking to someone, be sure you are "mostly" honest and genuine because people (especially females) can see through lies. They

They will sense it from a mile away and know if you're full of crap or not

Be brutally honest and straightforward. I

I am not talking about a negative, pessimistic, insulting, or overly sexual version of brutally honest. If

When we're talking about honesty, it's important to be honest with yourself about your feelings and emotions. If

That also goes to being honest with yourself and your emotions.

Perhaps the internet has returned us to a world a bit like the Stone Age in which there is no place for a fraudster to hide.

I had no idea why I was saying this. It just seemed like telling the truth would mean admitting some weaknesses.

I think it's funny. There was a time when men were afraid that somebody would reveal some secret of theirs that was unknown to their fellows. Nowadays, they're afraid that somebody will name what everybody knows. Have you practical people ever thought that that's all it would take to blast your whole, big, complex structure, with all your laws and guns—just somebody naming the exact nature of what you're doing?

If you want to defeat any kind of vicious fraud—comply with it literally, adding nothing of your own to disguise its nature.

There was a time when men were afraid that somebody would reveal some secret of theirs that was unknown to their fellows. Nowadays, they're afraid that somebody will name what everybody knows.

Simpler, Peter, simpler, more direct, as honest as you can make of a dishonest thing.

She looked not so much composed as drawn inward. She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.

Di Indonesia, kekuasaan diperlihatkan secara terang-terangan, tidak pandang bulu, terbuka, selalu segar dalam ingatan.

When I was a kid I inhaled frequently. That was the point.