Quotes About Transparency

Don't hide your mistakes, 'Cause they'll find you, burn you —"Get Out Alive" by Three Days Grace

You think you betrayed me and one day I will kill you for it. I'm not sure why I even bother talking. My eyes flashed with temper. I hated being transparent. That you allied with Darroc to attain your goals did not betray me. I'd have done the same. Then why are you so pissy? That you fucked him will be forgiven once you fuck me. Another woman might run headlong toward absolution.

have access to all our dirty linen.

I'd rather have an enemy who admits that they hate me, than a friend who secretly puts me down.

You'd better clean up your own backyard before you start talkin' trash." Because I would bet money—and I'm not a betting person—that each one of those women has something in their closets they'd rather not air. Everybody does. Especially those who are always eager to cast the first stone.

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the peoples body.

deal. To be honest, I was getting a bit self-conscious about

Leadership requires you to live above board

I believe if something needs to be said, people should say it. Blunt doesn't stab as deep as being cut by a secret.

Los Angeles. . . . It was some sort of organic ruin, an accident of architecture and brutal necessity. The iridescence was somehow almost legible, suggesting a calligraphy of exposed bone, transparencies, experimental skin grafts. The blood of Los Angeles was a red neon wash, a kind of sea of autistic traffic lights.

She liked it that he didn't play games. She was sick and a half of being condescended to.

Power does not willingly give up its place to truth.

Things work out better when you're straight up.

Better to live your life open rather than exist on borrowed time, waiting for the great unmasking.

Inform your boss of your progress. Even if your boss isn't asking for in-person updates, send her periodic e-mails about the project. That way she can get a sense about whether there's any kind of problem you might not recognize, especially if you're new at the game. Better to have her course-correct than have the project later blow up in your face.

When I say we do not

Er zijn tijden waarin je iets wat je wilt verbergen maar het beste vol in het zicht kunt zetten.

I was saying the right things, but not the really true things.

In a blank wall you may well fear the blindness which sees through you and sees you through.

Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state assumes the government secrets are too important to be shared, that only those in the know can see classified information, that only the president has all the facts, that we must simply trust that our rulers of acting in our interest.

Gary D. Schmidt

Be honest to all people all the time.

When decisions were finally made, they had generally been vetted by so many parties that no one person could be held accountable.

The truth is, we want to be known; we truly do. But we're afraid. If you see the real me, will you run away? Am I even worth being known? Will the real me bore you? Scare you? Repulse you? And so we hide.