Quotes About Transparency

By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.

It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.

If you look at their intentions, examine their motives, and scrutinize what brings them contentment – how can people hide who they are? How can they hide who they really are?

The blue of the sky is one of the most special colors in the world, because the color is deep but see-through both at the same time.

Despite its dark veins, the transparency of dragonfly's wings assures me of a pure, innocent world

Its easy to lie, but hard to confess

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.

There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.

Democracies die behind closed doors.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

Never get your girlfriend a pet that she didn't know she was getting.

If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse.

That's always been my philosophy: I try to just be as straightforward as possible, and then I don't really have to question what I said or regret anything.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Our whole philosophy is one of transparency.

One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I am actually becoming.

I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

When you live in a glass house, buying curtains for the windows doesn't help.

Be transparent like glass, be flexible like water, and be attractive like a magnet.

You are who you are what you say you are to people, but who are you when no one is watching?

WERE TRANSPARENCY EXISTS NOT!, THERE IS ALWAYS ROOM FOR FRUSTRATION AND DISASTER THEREIN

Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.

Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.