Quotes About Transparency

If no one saw them, no one could help them. And maybe the world needed to see what was really happening here.

Cultural products will spread faster and wider when everybody can see what everybody else is doing. It suggests that the future of many hit-making markets will be fully open, radically transparent, and very, very unequal.

Every day when you leave your home you give away more than you could ever imagine about who you are and what you do.

There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.

Truth can terrify. But there are many who face truth fearlessly.

Juno: Honest to blog?

Why the coy drama? I want him and he wants me; who needs subtext?

The truth about me would rise like smoke signals soon enough.

I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.

Accountability only works if you want it to.

Sometimes to be utterly innocent," he went on, "would be to be utterly unknown, particularly to oneself.

To be utterly innocent would be to be utterly unknown, particularly to oneself.

One must speak the truth about the past or not at all.

Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.

When someone shows you their true colors, believe them.

Sometimes my mouth is a little too big and a little too open and sounds too much like a sailor.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be—because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose and then where are you? —Fanny Brice (1891–1951), singer and comedian

When the words are suspicious, go after them, insist they tell us what they mean. Go after the meaning of the words. And if the speakers say they are the kind who call things as they see them, that they don't mince words, and call a spade a spade if not a bloody shovel, go after them even harder. They're often the worst liars of the lot.

What we lack in subtlety, we make up for with a lack of subtlety.

government should be good at, relative to the private sector – namely, equality, efficiency, merit, fairness and justice.

If the government is no longer as good as it once was in providing clear answers, the courts are now there to do so.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

I will have no locked cupboards in my life.

Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl,except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.