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Quotes About Transparency

Life is real, and you canot live a lie.
~ Andrew-Knox B Kaniki
The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
~ Carl Sandburg
In comedy, I hate that cop-out where you say, "Just kidding." I know you're just kidding. Don't insult my intelligence by spelling it out for me that much.
~ Anthony Jeselnik
I do believe there needs to be an investigation of the intelligence community's findings, classified findings, in order to ensure the electoral integrity of our system moving forward.
~ Katrina vanden Heuvel
The [Barack] Obama administration almost appears as though it is afraid of the intelligence community. They're afraid of death by a thousand cuts - you know, leaks and things like that.
~ Edward Snowden
I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
~ Elbert Hubbard
When people don't respect one another seldom is there honesty.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
~ Robin Morgan
Never do anything in secret or anything that you would wish to hide. For the desire to hide anything means that you are afraid, and fear is a bad thing and unworthy of you. Be brave, and all the rest follows.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile... Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile.
~ Jean Baudrillard
I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in.
~ Jean Rhys
social acceptability of digitization depends on us believing that our data will not be used against us,
~ Jean Tirole
the 2008 crisis is a textbook case for the theory of information
~ Jean Tirole
What does a row matter? Anything's better than deceiving each other. If a relationship can't stand up to the truth, then what sort of relationship is it? Anyway—' agitatedly, Meta twisted a length of scarf round her hand—'it doesn't matter any more.
~ Jean Ure
Don't let politeness interfere with truth
~ Jean Webster
Do you think a woman of that age is attractive if she deals in subterfuges and evasions? Character," she added solemnly, "is a plant of slow growth, and the seeds must be planted early.
~ Jean Webster
You live in a glass house, Mr. Smith.
~ Jean Webster
Because everything else is just chingaderas.
~ Jeanine Cummins
If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless.
~ Jef I. Richards
I'd spent five minutes looking at Twitter once and felt I'd wandered into a poker game where everyone immediately displayed their hands against the cool green of the felt.
~ JEFF ABBOTT
I'd spent five minutes looking at Twitter once and felt I'd wandered into a poker game where everyone immediately displayed their hands against the cool green of the felt.
~ JEFF ABBOTT
I told him point-blank so there would be no mistake: This person he wanted to know better did not exist; I was who I seemed to be from the outside. That would never change.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
She had wanted to cover up the core of her decisions by hiding facts or watering them down. But she must have been wise enough to realize, no matter her motivations, no matter the labyrinth, every omission left some sign of its presence.
~ Jeff Vandermeer