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Quotes About Transparency

Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door.
~ Hilary Mantel
Truth is suppressed, not to protect the country from enemy agents but to protect the Government of the day against the people.
~ Roy Hattersley
Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it.
~ Ravi Zacharias
You can't handle the truth!
~ Jack Nicholson
People are always afraid of the truth.
~ Mickey Rourke
Love is not always about 'everything's fine'…love is about truth. Truth and love are one in the same. It doesn't always come in a sweet little box with a bow on it.
~ Tom Shadyac
I don't think telling the truth ever gets anyone in trouble in the long run. Maybe the day after, but not in the long run.
~ Steve Spurrier
I welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth
~ Aneurin Bevan
One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth.
~ Christian Friedrich Hebbel
Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth.
~ David Gergen
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it.
~ Malcolm X
I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.
~ William Harvey
Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.
~ Loretta Lynn
Integral reality is the world's transparency, a perceiving of the world as truth: a mutual perceiving and imparting of the truth of the world and of man and of all that transluces both.
~ Jean Gebser
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
~ William O. Douglas
Once you know the truth, you can't ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
It is such a relief to be told the truth.
~ Katherine Anne Porter
In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
No one is entitled to the truth.
~ E. Howard Hunt
Simple is the speech of truth.
~ Aeschylus
You have to be intellectually honest with yourself and others. In my judgment, all great investors are seekers of truth.
~ Michael Steinhardt
So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.
~ John Travolta
There are three things that cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.
~ Gautama Buddha