Quotes About Transparency

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.

Governments may know a lot more about our lives than we care to contemplate, but frequently they know less about the world than we presume.

If you don't have this freedom of the press, then all these little fellows are weaseling around and doing their monkey business and they never get caught.

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.

I'm not going to tell you how I think you should live your life, or what I think you should do," said Mary. "Now's not the time. But I will say this: Don't try to paper over things that matter, Laura. The cracks will appear. Maybe not immediately, but they will.

Likewise, the other person has a right to know us accurately, to consider the relationship and make plans for the future based on facts, not fantasies or projections.

privacy shifts into secrecy when an act of deliberate concealment or hiding has a significant impact on a relationship process

Great brands, however, are authentic. They have endured because people have learned they are credible and have come to trust those brands to be what they say they are; great brands have integrity. What they say is integrated—integrated and integrity are related expressions—with what they do. No one responds to our efforts to be other than who we are. They respond to the good but bad, excellent but flawed person across the table from them.

Mildred ließ sich auf einen Stuhl fallen. "Du weißt ja: Wer im Glashaus sitzt... Vielleicht hab ich 'n Sprung in der Schüssel. Und wennschon. Ich werd' euch mal ein Geheimnis verraten: Wenn die Schüssel 'nen Sprung hat, dann kommt mehr Licht rein. Also bin ich doch schlauer als ihr.

The writers job is to get naked, To hide nothing. To look away from nothing. To look at it. To not blink. To be not embarrassed or shamed of it. Strip it down and lets get down to where the blood is, the bone is. Instead of hiding it with clothes and all kinds of other stuff, luxury!

If you wipe the screen clean, you must accept the truth of what then appears.

Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.

When in doubt, tell the truth. —Mark Twain

The truth shall set you free.

Dispelling fear. Taming what was scary not by hiding it, not by blocking it or burying it, not by keeping it secret, but

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

Trust him with none of thy individualities who is, or pretends to be, two things at once.

Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.