Quotes About Transparency

Citizens exercised parrhesia, which translates as 'all speech', or sometimes 'true speech'.

anonymous blogger can print a leaked document or run a denunciation of an abuse of power. But if the abuse is to be tackled, then the blogger or the people who have read his or her work must go out and campaign for change in public.

Writers write badly when they have something to hide. Clarity makes their shaky assumptions plain to the readers – and to themselves. By keeping it foggy they save themselves the trouble of spelling out their beliefs and recommendations for the future. For academics, of all people, this is a disreputable way of going about business, but one that has many uses. Obscurantism spared the theorists who emerged from the grave of Marxism the pain of testing dearly held beliefs and prejudices

Writers write badly when they have something to hide.

Writers write badly when they have something to hide. Clarity makes their shaky assumptions plain to the readers – and to themselves.

Water can be a symbol of purification, to stand naked before someone a sign of truth, of nothing to hide. - Nick Flynn

Speaking straight felt different. She found she liked it.

He who longs for "perfect communication" among individuals, their reciprocal "perfect transparency," their mutual "perfect possession," as a certain high priest of the left does, longs for the perfect totalitarian society.

In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen, in small things they show themselves as they are

Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

Truth and clarity are complementary.

Look around. Take the tour. Fear hangs on the wall and shame sometimes. Emotional dislocation too. But I am brave in my admission. Are you? When no one is looking, I check to see if anyone seems as scared as me, or lonely, or shy, or insecure. Is it just me? I'm not so sure. Is your heart an onion too? Show me yours, I'll show you mine we used to say. Your turn. Peel away.

Rather face the consequences if the truth rather than the reprocussions of a lie

The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity.

I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That's a totally different matter.

but I think when you are trying so hard to hide your own truth, it's hard to see anyone else's." -Ruby

When wine is in, truth is out, you know.

when one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay

In small communities, she believed, people are more accountable to one another. Serious misbehavior is harder to get away with, harder even to begin when everyone who sees you knows who you are, where you live, who your family is, and whether you have any business doing what you're doing.

Then show me what you are. Give me the trust you ask me to give you.

I'm no good at denial and self-deception.

I told as much of the truth as I could.

Serious misbehavior is harder to get away with, harder even to begin when everyone who sees you knows who you are, where you live, who your family is, and whether you have any business doing what you're doing.