Quotes About Transparency

Making something secret makes it too important, elevates it to the point where it runs your life from the shadows. If you hide what's at your core from other people for too long, sooner or later you end up hiding it from yourself and waking up with no idea of who you are.

Truth, like a little dog, will always find its way out into the street.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest forced] PepsiCo to change the labeling of its Tropicana Peach Papaya Juice to reflect ... that it has neither peaches nor papaya and is not a juice.

Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.

A lot of men not only fear emotional pain, they are afraid to be transparent and vulnerable. To let an outsider even glimpse their confusion or suffering is a taboo that starts in adolescence and becomes more entrenched with adulthood.

He once told me that being politically correct was like pretending you could pick up a dog turd by the clean end.

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. GEORGE ORWELL

When asked about how he could have offered the Warren Report, full of inconsistencies, to the American people with a straight face, Dulles is reported to have said, "The American people don't read.

True. If you tell people everything, you take away their opportunity to learn.

What is inappropriate is accepting fossil fuel funding while attacking others for doing the same. Even less appropriate is lying about it.

environmental scientists, journalists, and activists have an obligation to describe environmental problems honestly and accurately, even if they fear doing so will reduce their news value or salience with the public.

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

Oliphant plays with images of windows and mirrors, translucence and opacity, the present and the past.

Why is it that you have to warn people about who you are? Why can't it just be something that happens?

A Beloved Son is one who experiences the unconditional love of his Father in a way that deeply impacts him and leaves him with: Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Prove, Nothing to Fear.

Casualness is the enemy of pretense.

So clear was his inability to take any criticism or to participate in any honest argument about policy that the attempt was almost never made.

I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray… I am myself the matter of my book.

These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does.

We've all done things we'd rather keep in the dark. It's only by shedding light on them that our demons can disappear.

I've seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are.

we can't keep hiding behind our faults to protect ourselves.

History is the fruit of power, but power itself is never so transparent that its analysis becomes superfluous. The ultimate mark of power may be its invisibility; the ultimate challenge, the exposition of its roots.

Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.