Quotes About Transparency

There is no shame in asking when honesty and sincerity is not questioned.

Honesty is a not a code word but a lifestyle.

There is no hypocrisy in truthfulness.

There is no password for a clear conscience.

The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench and optical thirst for purity in the transparencies that evoke it - in bubbles, in a volume of water, and in the imaginary latitudes entrenched, beyond reach, at the very center of a dense crystal.

The word "pure" has never revealed an intelligible meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench an optical thirst for purity in the transparencies that evoke it – in bubbles, in a volume of water, and in the imaginary latitudes entrenched, beyond reach, at the very center of a dense crystal.

There is a reason why trash bags aren't made of transparent plastic.

Honesty can be a dirty gift.

There was nothing fake or added about him. He was all himself.

There was nothing fake or added or subtracted about him. He was all himself.

Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.

Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them out in time.

Wo ein Klima der Ãœberwachung und Bespitzelung herrscht, kann ein freier und offener demokratischer Prozess nicht stattfinden.

Simplicity is the seal of truth!

Corruption will be enemy number one.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

privacy requires a public façade

The bread court does not deliberate, it punishes. It knows no mitigation, it needs no legal code. It is a law unto itself, because the hunger angel is also a thief who steals the brain. Bread justice has no prologue or epilogue, it is only here and now. Totally transparent, or totally mysterious. In any case, the violence meted out by bread justice is different from hungerless violence. You cannot approach the bread court with conventional morality.

Sometimes,' he says, 'I think it would save time and work if all the interested parties came to the council, including foreign ambassadors. The proceedings leak out anyway, and to save them mishearing and misconstruing they might as well hear everything at first hand.

you cannot tell people just part of the tale and then stop, or just tell them the parts you choose.

In truth you cannot separate them, your public being and your private self.

The poor labourer owns his sleep and his stool, and can sell his piss to the fuller, whereas the king's piss and stool is the property of all England...should his bowel be loose, its product is taken away in a bowl under an embroidered cloth. They can only judge what is within him, by what comes out: a pity he is not made of glass.

It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster?" "Everything.

I have asked you to lie to me in the past, in this very room, but I would beg you not to lie now.