Quotes About Transparency

You see, I have a policy about honesty and ass-kicking, which is, if you ask for it, then I have to let you have it.

Most people are quite dense. They like little white houses with big stained-glass churches and prefer to do their killing with looks and words behind one another's backs. He paused. Welcome to my house. No secrets allowed. Here we all do our killing with guns and axes and knives. It's more bloody than what most people are accustomed to, yes, but it's far less brutal.

Wer ein schlechtes Gedächtnis hat, dem bleibt keine andere Wahl als die Wahrheit zu sagen.

Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.

You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table.

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see.

It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that theyre going on.

You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

Puddles were weak. Puddles were transparent, with all their secrets and imperfections clearly visible to observers standing above them. Puddles could be stepped on and splashed through and ruined.

Directness often disguised as much as it revealed, and was a marvelous defense.

I hated lying, though. That's probably why I was so bad at it.

It's amazing how something can be blue and yet absolutely colorless.

I like the truth, even when it does trouble me.

Inventaron un cristal que dejaba pasar las moscas. La mosca venía, empujaba un poco con la cabeza y, pop, ya estaba del otro lado. Alegría enormísima de la mosca.

She, of course, told me this shit, because she couldn't stop herself from telling me everything she's thinking.

Jacob narrowed his eyes at me, seeing me clearly without my two-faced mask, both sides made up — one with cosmetics, the other with lies.

My father is a liar and so am I. But I'm going to stop. I have to stop. I will tell you my story and I will tell it straight. No lies, no omissions. That's my promise. This time I truly mean it.

We will never come to the place of being holy enough for God to hear our prayer. Rather, we stand before the Lord pure, transparent and righteous because it is a gift He has given us through His Son. It is not something we can earn. We are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. It is nothing we attain. It is only by grace that we are children of God.

Honesty is the most beautiful gift a person can give to another at the beginning of a friendship.

Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal.

In our spiritual vision we are not only to see each thing in sharp relief, standing out in all the brilliance of its specific being, but we are also to see each thing as transparent: in and through each created thing we are to discern the Creator.

I have to be natural and not doing anything fake, not lying on social media, in interviews and life.

I'm pretty open, and when I do interviews, I end up blabbing.