Quotes About Transparency

I have allowed myself to believe that to be stripped of all the props and pretensions and accolades and approvals is to be stripped of the best parts of me. When in reality what's best about me comes to the forefront when I'm closest to the way God created me, naked and unashamed. To stand naked and unashamed is the way of the garden life.

Lies flee in the presence of truth.

Still another reason why the payment of taxes implies no consent, or pledge, to support the government, is that the taxpayer does not know, and has no means of knowing, who the particular individuals are who compose "the government." To him "the government" is a myth, an abstraction, an incorporeality, with which he can make no contract, and to which he can give no consent, and make no pledge. He knows it only through its pretended agents. "The government" itself he never sees.

Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can.

Eu sei que vossa excelência preferia uma delicada mentira; mas eu não conheço nada mais delicado que a verdade.

Lucy, you're as transparent as a pane of glass, and there's not a speck of guile to be seen in you. Yet in a way you're a mystery to me.

The inherent tensions between the White House and the press should not worry a president who is disciplined about observing certain elementary tactics of survival. Take responsibility, admit mistakes, put out bad news quickly, and acknowledge inconsistencies before others point them out.

How many of us would be granted pardon if our true hearts were known?

Let people feel the weight of who you are, and let them deal with it.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth in an open market, is a nation that is afraid of its people.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

The very word Secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society.

Come clean Charles, come clean

Also, I'm not going to be devastated or anything either way. I'm not that kind of person. I just think if you don't say the honest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true, you know, and I—" she says, but then I hold up my finger, because I need to hear the thing she just said, and she talks too fast for me to keep up. I keep holding up my hand, thinking if you don't say the honest thing, it never becomes true.

Tell the truth, she advised him, and everything will be fine.

There is no justice without truth. P.D. East

Lies of omission count as lies, sweetie—they can be the worst ones.

Things often are as they appear.

Finny always said what he happened to be thinking, and if this stunned people then he was surprised.

Self-interest would become comfort and then affinity. Transparency, for this reason, was vital: "We throw open our city to the world, and never by alien acts exclude foreigners from any opportunity of learning or observing." Athenians found "the fruits of other countries" to be "as familiar a luxury as those of [their] own." The walls made their citizenship global.

There is no weapon so disarming and effective in relations with the communists as sheer honesty. They know very little about it.

Ich sag's ihnen in's gesicht.

Part of that relationship requires political leaders to understand the truth—and to be able to handle the truth.

For if there is a single dominant lesson from 1918, it's that governments need to tell the truth in a crisis.