Transparency Quotes

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

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

The truth is like sunlight: It causes cancer.

~ J. Richard Singleton

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

~ Marty Rubin

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

~ C.s. Lewis

If you think you can stand to know what you’re made of, try kneeling before God.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

~ Madam Secretary

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

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

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

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

~ Rodney Ulyate

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

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

It is impossible to read this opening paragraph without an involuntary feeling of religious awe, it breathed the very savor of Gospel antiquity. The sincerity of the author heightens his power of language.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

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

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

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

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

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

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

~ Charles Dickens

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

~ Andrew Kantor

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

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

Public officials insult our intelligence and our goodwill when they paint rosy pictures about budgets, jobs, bipartisanship, and transparency, and alter their positions on issues simply to keep collecting their paycheck by never disagreeing or disappointing anyone.

~ Wendy E. Long

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

~ Arthur Erickson

The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency, because if the power is abused, the result can be so enormous. On the other hand, those people who do not have power, we mustn't reduce their power even more by making them yet more transparent.

~ Julian Assange

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

~ Ivan Krastev