Transparency Quotes

I am not alone in the conviction that real, lasting national security can best be obtained through complete transparency of government, business, and other facets of society, and this includes open access to all of the many available types of information.

Robert David Steele

I realized in 1988 that my life as a spy specializing in secrets was not only unproductive, it was in sharp opposition to what we actually need: full access to true information, and consequently, the ability to create Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT).

Robert David Steele

Liberation technology creates wealth, and open-source technology creates wealth. In both instances the 'center of gravity' for dramatic change toward resilience and sustainability is the human brain mass of five billion poor--the one billion rich have failed to 'scale.' The human brain is the one unlimited resource we have on Earth.

Robert David Steele

I will say that again in a different way: the persistent unethical and ignorant emphasis on secrecy and on making decisions for partisan advantage or to pay off campaign contributors and select insiders is not sustainable. We the People have an opportunity to embrace this manifesto of Open-Source Everything and bury 'rule of secrecy.' This is why I am optimistic about the future.

Robert David Steele

Here's the bottom line: The secret world of intelligence--at least in the United States of America--represents everything wrong with the government, the industrial era, our financial-economic system, and our ethics.

Robert David Steele

There’s no going back, and there’s no hiding the information. So let everyone have it.

Andrew Kantor

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing compared to self-swindlers.

Charles Dickens

I find it hard to describe what it is like to look fully into eyes that one has known that well--known better than one knows the look of one's own eyes, actually--and then put away, deliberately forgotten. That instantly reasserted intimacy, that resumption of what looks like friendly concern, is like nakedness, like exposure.

Wallace Stegner

There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.

Ben Fountain

We live in a culture of secrecy, where hiding and lying are accepted as natural, even though we don’t like it. We want honesty, transparency, and authenticity in our loved ones, our groups and organizations, and in our own self so we can reach the heights of our capacity. By clinging to the opaque reality we stall our evolution.

Penney Peirce

To be found is to be exposed. No wonder so many of us are still lost.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

When an actor reaches down into his emotional well and pulls up a deeply personal response, the audience can sense something special is going on. They may not know exactly what they're seeing, but they recognize it as authentic.

Martin Sheen

You know you have a transparency problem when citizens of a democracy need to rely on WikiLeaks for details on changes to laws.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

Here, then, are some ways we can try to prevent mistakes. We can foster the ability to listen to each other and the freedom to speak our minds. We can create open and transparent environments instead of cultures of secrecy and concealment. And we can permit and encourage everyone, not just a powerful inner circle, to speak up when they see the potential for error.These measures might be a prescription for identifying and eliminating mistakes, but they sound like something else: a prescription for democracy. That's not an accident. Although we don't normally think of it in these terms, democratic governance represents another method—this time a political rather than an industrial or personal one—for accepting the existence of error and trying to curtail its more dangerous incarnations.

Kathryn Schulz

Guantánamo Bay's motto: 'Safe, humane, legal, transparent detention.' Four adjectives describing one sick joke.

Rodney Ulyate

Every piece of clutter you dissolve back into clear light allows your higher inner blueprint, your soul’s destiny, to translate fluidly and accurately into the form of your life. The clearer you become, the easier it is to evolve along with the planet—with no snags, stuckness, or suffering. This is the act of becoming transparent.

Penney Peirce

When you see through a defense mechanism, you don’t stop at the intimidating behavior but go right on into the underlying misperception about life and through that to the path back to harmony. When you see through people’s fear-based actions, motives, and secrets, you’re really aiming for their sweet vulnerability, inner beauty, and magnificence—and you find their soul.

Penney Peirce

There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.

Joseph Pulitzer

People respect those who know how to admit their own mistakes and see their own weaknesses. If you heart is as transparent as crystal, people will respect you.

Sunday Adelaja

Maybe the best way for you to get us to summon our better selves is for you to show us yours.

Madam Secretary

Instead of fleeing God scrutiny, David welcomed it. It's like he was saying, "Look God, since I can't hide from you, since you know my very thoughts before I think them, I want you to fully know me. Be in the very core, the essence of my being. If you're going to know me, then know everything about me!

Will Davis Jr.

We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from ourselves.

C.S. Lewis

Even the oldest trees aren't ashamed to stand naked.

Marty Rubin

The truth is like sunlight: It causes cancer.

J. Richard Singleton

Tell the truth about any situation & you are delivered from lack of progress, but become hypocritical or lying, and you may be in bondage for life.

Auliq-Ice

All too often people pretend to be professional. "Professionalism" is sometimes a facade for fraud. Be pro, but be real. Honesty and transparency combined with character, competence and real results is the key to being a true pro.

Richie Norton

I hid my wound under my clothes. Nobody could see it, including myself, and I completely forgot about it. Then I met someone who, filled with love, held me tight in that point. The pain was devastating, and I hated him, o how much I hated him, the cause of all my suffering. Then I met someone, beautifully dressed, and I loved him so much, holding him tight with all my passion. And he suffered badly, and he hated me, o how much he hated me, the cause of all his pain. So the story went on till I met someone who undressed himself, standing completely naked, with all his horrible wounds. Hence I also undressed, and I saw my horrible wounds, which he could also see. Then...

Franco Santoro

Only through becoming aware of yourself and your limitations can you be transparent with others.

Joanie Connell

Once I finally understand the immensity of my own impoverishment, I am finally in a position to see the enormity of God’s majesty.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

When you know yourself—your strengths, joys, limitations, and fears—you can live in truth and transparency in all areas of your life.

Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

Your transparency is just another one of your disguises, isn't it? You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.

Napz Cherub Pellazo

One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.

Shannon L. Alder

The real warriors in this world are the ones that see the details of another's soul. They see the transparency behind walls people put up. They stand on the battlefield of life and expose their heart's transparency, so other's can finish the day with hope. They are the sensitive souls that understand that before they could be a light they first had to feel the burn.

Shannon L. Alder

My past conduct was so transparent and so honest that when my enemies spread rumours about me nobody believed them.

Amit Kalantri

Both transparency and trust form the basic component of truth itself. With truth, there is no need to be untrue. If one is truthful, then there is godliness because God is truth. And when godliness is on your side, success is guaranteed.

Vishwas Chavan

Truth’s nakedness is not concerned with whom it strikes - painfully, or with pleasure; responding appropriately to its ingenuous temperament, however, rewards perceptions of unbiased transparency.

T.F. Hodge

When we are honest about the limitations we are self imposing it becomes necessary to cry out with determination and state you’ve had enough of the mediocrity of stagnation.

Heidi Reagan

Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.

Tom Clancy

Authenticity is hard to fake

Rasheed Ogunlaru

In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.

Vera Nazarian

It is in the deconstruction of ourselves that we begin to build our lives.

Delora Argiro O'Brien

One should show one's scars, not hide them.

Marty Rubin

Despite its dark veins, the transparency of dragonfly’s wings assures me of a pure, innocent world

Munia Khan

Be transparent. Let's build a community that allows hard questions and honest conversations so we can stir up transformation in one another.

Germany Kent

What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy?

Rick Perlstein

Let's take off the masks and get real so we can get it right with God.

Undena Y. Leake Jackson

If you remove Al Sharpton’s blackness, he disappears. He’s transparent. There’s nothing there because he bases his whole life on his blackness. Me, I’m a black man; but my blackness has submission to my Christianity.

Ken Hutcherson

Why do the powerful always insist on having a “back story” to justify whatever they do? Why can’t they—just once—do something for the simple reason that it is the right thing to do, in itself, for reasons understood and accepted by all? In politics, laws are passed to secretly serve hidden agendas, for without such agendas many lawmakers would never find the motivation to support anything at all.

Clifford Cohen

We're only lucky enough to see the wonders of nature's canyons because they're gracious enough to show us the places they've been damaged.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.

Germany Kent

They beg you for transparency. Yet when you give them a peek behind the curtain shrouding your hear, they run in sheer fright.

Alfa H

Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons and daughters of a given nation strive to emulate their leader's greatness. Only then will a nation be truly great, when a leader inspires and produces citizens worthy of becoming future leaders, honorable decision makers and peacemakers. And in these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe.

Suzy Kassem

Transparency is critical in public health and epidemics laypeople become either effective force-multipliers or stubborn walls.

T.K. Naliaka

It is always healthy to be honest.

Amit Kalantri

The early dew-falls that did a pristine coating,over the woods with its finest transparency,glazed as like its wet white-glassy earrings that hung on the ears of wild flowers—unlatched my fancy.

Nithin Purple

If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one’s clothes throughout the day, millions of employees would each fast ten or so days before their payday.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Give it air & let the scar on your soul reveal itself, because, like the body, it too was made to heal itself.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

You have to be transparent so you no longer cast a shadow but instead let the light pass through you.

Kamand Kojouri

Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

William O. Douglas

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Mahatma Gandhi

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