Quotes About Transparency

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.

Character is more than a man-to-his-God humility, for it involves transparency and accountability to others, not merely a private quest for purity.

A man who doesn't say what he means or do what he says, craves attention and misuses it when he gets it, doesn't share what he knows and earns,deserves death.

My experience has proved that a man who is running for office, and is not willing to make his honest opinions known to the public, either has no honest opinions or is not honest about them.

Wine is a peep-hole on a man.

I have always deeply desired to be an honest man who said it when I struggled, stumbled and worried. I longed to be a man with real friends - friends who knew me at my worst and loved me.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. Let us be like the man of the frontier and always reveal with utmost honesty our real reasons for all that we do.

Honesty is probably the sexiest thing a man can give to a woman.

Listen to a man's words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?

When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.

But it's easy to find the whole environment a little creepy, because something is missing: the translation of all its content into clear explicit written words, the attribution of the ideas to specific people.

This is why he hates business. He wants to tell everyone everything. He wants to make friends with people.

total nakedness, that is absolute transparency, that is utter and unfettered and profound visibility, is the only way that we can truly love. anything less, is self-defense

Brick walls are opaque to our eyes, but to microwaves those walls are transparent, which is why we can talk on our cell phones while indoors.

we shouldn't reshape our science just to avoid confusing the public

Do you have secret meetings going on in your church? You are in trouble with God!

I always thought that voluntary arms compliance inspections were sort of like a suspected murderer leading me on a guided tour of his house. No, Detective, there's nothing in that closet of any interest. Now, let me show you my patio.

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People will tell you most of the story… and I've learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they're afraid.

See me just as I see you.

The thing is, I get the sense that you're telling me the truth. You're just not telling all of it. And the part you're leaving out is the part that would help me understand who you are.

My dad, unlike most of humanity, had no secrets at all. He had no hidden vices, no diaries, no embarrassing interests, no box of private things he kept all to himself. I found nothing that further enlightened me about his inner life, nothing that might help me understand him after he was gone. My dad, I knew then, was just as he'd always seemed to be, and I suddenly realised how much I admired him for that.