Top 100 Quotes About Transparency
#1. Confidentiality and transparency are not mutually exclusive, but rather two sides of the same coin.
Thomas De Maiziere
#2. There are a lot of things that Slack gives you that email doesn't when you think about internal use. Switching to Slack from email for internal communication gives you a lot more transparency.
Stewart Butterfield
#3. There's no going back, and there's no hiding the information. So let everyone have it.
Andrew Kantor
#4. What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press.
Esther Dyson
#5. 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
#6. As we all know here at the Circle, transparency leads to peace of mind. No longer
Dave Eggers
#7. Transparency is therefore more than an esthetic triumph; it is a victory that will be reflected in lower costs throughout the software's life cycle. 6.2.2
Eric S. Raymond
#8. The difference between both is that social entrepreneurship has a much more financial transparency. There is no financial viability and that is where a corporate sector makes a difference because we maintain a balance between both the financial status and the social service.
Ramon Magsaysay
#9. Hate is like a swordfish, working through water invisibly and then you see it coming with blood along its blade, but transparency disarms it.
Pablo Neruda
#10. Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.
Alexander Stille
#11. We've seen filibusters to block judicial nominations, jobs bills, political transparency, ending Big Oil subsidies - you name it, there's been a filibuster.
Elizabeth Warren
#12. Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) has called for an audit of the Pentagon, so that we finally have some transparency and accountability in how DOD spends taxpayer dollars.
Pete Hegseth
#14. The merits of deeper debt cancellation, when accompanied by conditions of accountability and transparency on the part of recipient countries, have been shown to generate much needed resources for health, education and poverty reduction for some of the world's poorest people.
John Ricard
#15. I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You've got to be truthful. I don't think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you've got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it.
Howard Schultz
#16. I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through.
Kirsten Gillibrand
#17. I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.
Jeff Weiner
#18. Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt ... and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done.
Michael Moore
#19. People with vision master the ability to see through to the heart of issues and investments. They value transparency.
Robert Kiyosaki
#20. The Lord loves holiness and transparency, and I think that if we are to worship Him properly and lead others to do the same, our day to day lives have to reflect that.
Kathryn Scott
#21. My life is an open book; at least this photo album".
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
R. Alan Woods
#22. There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are.
Brennan Manning
#23. 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
#24. Your transparency is just another one of your disguises, isn't it?
Gregory Maguire
#25. A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
Dalai Lama
#26. Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.
Julian Assange
#27. Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings.
Diane Garnick
#28. 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
#29. Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.
Ivan Krastev
#30. I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.
Seth Godin
#31. Radical transparency fosters goodness in so many ways for the same reasons that bad things are more likely to take place behind closed doors.
Ray Dalio
#32. Our entire brand is about transparency. We want that data out there because you know what? If you are only getting one in three messages replied to, you're normal. You're right there in the middle of everything with everyone else.
Sam Yagan
#33. There is no transparency, Marus. It can't exist. Surveillance doesn't go both ways. There are those who watch, and those who are watched; the powerful, and the powerless.
Celeste Chaney
#34. The balance of power has shifted - and how we've moved from a world of caveat emptor, buyer beware, to one of caveat venditor, seller beware - where honesty, fairness, and transparency are often the only viable path.
Daniel H. Pink
#35. At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: 'A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.' Magical rays of white-hot sunlight emanated from his media-manufactured halo. And then bureaucratically engineered darkness settled over the land.
Michelle Malkin
#36. Social media is your opportunity to reach a massive number of people with transparency, honesty, and integrity.
Brian E. Boyd Sr.
#37. Healing takes place when grievances are given ample and patient space to be acknowledged, when there is transparency and honesty, when everybody is given the chance to be heard, when nobody is excluded, when people can accept the energy of the conflict and use it as a major opportunity for growth.
Franco Santoro
#38. All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#39. Trust, honesty, humility, transparency and accountability are the building blocks of a positive reputation. Trust is the foundation of any relationship.
Mike Paul
#40. 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
#41. I introduced the Transparency in Government Act, a multi-faceted transparency bill that would bring unprecedented access and accountability to the federal government.
Mike Quigley
#43. Transparency people talk a lot about, it's a goal everybody ascribes to but when push comes to shove, very few people actually adhere to it.
Keith Rabois
#45. When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
James Thurber
#46. One man's transparency is another's humiliation.
Gerry Adams
#47. Interface evolves toward transparency. The one you have to devote the least conscious effort to, survives, prospers.
William Gibson
#48. Despite a campaign that was based on a very powerful promise of transparency, President Obama, and again in my view quite correctly, has used the state secrets argument in a variety of courts, as much as President Bush.
Michael Hayden
#49. When anyone lacks self-awareness and doesn't recognize their transparencies, it's always funny.
Merrill Markoe
#50. Integral reality is the world's transparency, a perceiving of the world as truth: a mutual perceiving and imparting of the truth of the world and of man and of all that transluces both.
Jean Gebser
#51. The one, more Latin, more Roman, closer to eloquence than to the literal word, aims at a certain effect, at magic. The other, more Greek, more Hellenistic, seeks transparency flowing from the source.
Therese De Lisieux
#52. I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see.
Julian Assange
#53. The United States is paradise compared to China, Russia, Ecuador and Cuba, with regard to the press. And with regard to secrecy and transparency.
Rudy Giuliani
#54. Transparency in government, no less than transparency in choosing government, remains a vital national interest in a democracy.
Merrick Garland
#55. Know why transparency's a beautiful thing? Transparency means no shame.
Richard Castle
#56. The author describes Lincoln's attitude in making a deal with a newspaper publisher as, "almost defiant transparency.
Harold Holzer
#57. When he looks back at me, his eyes travel around my face the way fingers dart through the bottom of a drawer, searching for batteries in a blackout.
Holly Schindler
#58. With the advent of winter, her eyes seemed to take on a greater transparency, a transparency that lead nowhere. Occassionally, for no particular reason, Naoko would gaze into my eyes as if searching for something. Each time I was filled with odd sensations of lonliness and inadequecy.
Haruki Murakami
#59. I never use hedge funds because I am well aware of what drives future performance, and hedge funds start out with a great disadvantage in every major category: taxes, fees, risk management, transparency and liquidity.
Peter Mallouk
#60. 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
#61. If you think you can stand to know what you're made of, try kneeling before God.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#62. I think open source is an evolutionary idea for humanity, this idea of transparency. It played out for us in the technology world, but it also played out with the idea of a truth and reconciliation commission and Wikipedia.
Megan Smith
#63. Slovakia's joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.
John Mica
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. The lesson for me was clear: national security officials do not like the light. They act abusively and thuggishly only when they believe they are safe, in the dark. Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, we discovered, its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.
Glenn Greenwald
#67. Snowden evidently knew of WikiLeaks, a niche transparency website
Luke Harding
#68. A successful life is an authentic life. Happiness and creativity rest on a foundation of transparency to yourself and others. Knowing your own heart and speaking clearly to others keep you on the path.
Gay Hendricks
#69. We need to keep pressure on our own governments to force more and more transparency.
Mo Ibrahim
#70. We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.
Carly Fiorina
#71. Transparency may be the most disruptive and far-reaching innovation to come out of social media.
Paul Gillin
#72. We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.
Marco Rubio
#73. I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission. And so, the transparency radical became a secret-keeper instead of a secret-leaker. And that, I think, is a big problem.
Alex Gibney
#74. 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
#75. They are flying now above a dreamscape of rollercoasting white cloud crests. It feels sometimes like a premonition of death. Being so high up in the sky where no other living creature can survive. Where there is nothing solid. Just shifting transparency, luminous endless space.
Glenn Haybittle
#76. All lies are not meant to deceive, some become inevitable in a society lacking in transparency and openness.
Tarif Naaz
#77. At its core, naked service boils down to the ability of a service provider to be vulnerable - to embrace uncommon levels of humility, selflessness, and transparency for the good of a client.
Patrick Lencioni
#78. To approach these problems we once again rely on one of our guiding principles: transparency.
Richard H. Thaler
#79. I don't claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.
Michael Arrington
#80. We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we're moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.
Mark Zuckerberg
#81. Decide the outer boundaries of the kanban system. It is often best to limit this to the immediate span of political control. Do not force visualization, transparency, and WIP limits on any department that does not volunteer to collaborate.
David J. Anderson
#82. You are perfectly justified in scoffing at the outrageous transparency of it if I tell you that his wife said that he was so pale that he looked as if he had seen a ghost, but that is, indeed, what she said. Art cannot rescue anybody from anything.
Gilbert Sorrentino
#83. There was a lightness to the material that she loved but that also made her feel vulnerable, and she wondered which was more dangerous - the transparency of a fabric or of the soul?
Alyson Richman
#84. Transparency painted in a picture produces its effect in a different way than opaqueness.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#85. There is a very intense culture of secrecy in Britain that hasn't yet been dismantled. What passes for transparency here would serve any secret society well.
Heather Brooke
#86. Transparency, accountability and sustainability have become the slogans of the market leaders. Companies carry out environmental and social audits to court the consumer, and even the bluest chips woo organisations such as Greenpeace and Amnesty.
Noreena Hertz
#87. I don't like conflicts of interest; they should be eliminated or disclosed. I believe in transparency: that people have to really not just know but understand what they're buying and selling.
Eric Schneiderman
#88. Why is it that we all - myself included - believe these stories? Why are we so quick to assume that the TSA is a bunch of jack-booted thugs, officious and arbitrary and drunk with power? It's because everything seems so arbitrary, because there's no accountability or transparency in the DHS.
Bruce Schneier
#89. 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
#90. [X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the desire to domesticate time (cinema), to preserve and capture the surface of the fleeting (photography), to see inside (x-ray).
Walead Beshty
#91. There is no moderator or ombudsman online, and while the transparency of the web usually means that information is self-correcting, we still have to keep in mind the responsibility each of us carries when the power of the press is at our fingertips and in our pockets.
Matt Mullenweg
#92. We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law.
Lee H. Hamilton
#93. There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.
Edward Snowden
#94. Some said America took a step forward electing a black president. In light of the unconstitutiona l expansion of powers, lack of transparency and fueling the fires of unrest that clearly hasn't been the case. Vote based on merits, not to fill a racial quota.
Denzel Washington
#95. To stabilize the nation's public-employee pension systems and to prevent federal taxpayers from being billed for failed pension funds, I have introduced the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act in Congress.
Devin Nunes
#96. The way forward is for governments to consciously pursue monetary and fiscal stability through setting clear objectives, establishing proper rules, and requiring openness and transparency - the new rules of the game.
Gordon Brown
#97. The movement towards radical transparency and accountability has been gaining steam for several decades.
Heather Brooke
#98. There is no modern prototype for a campus. You have to have a completely different model which has to do with transparency and exposing social connectivity and breaking down the Balkanization that happens departmentally.
Thom Mayne
#99. His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbearable sensitivity, a sort of transparency, which made every movement, every sound, every contact, every word that he had to speak or listen to, an agony. Even in sleep he could not altogether escape form her image.
George Orwell
#100. It should strengthen investors' confidence. This is done through transparency, high quality financial reports, and a standardized economic market. This is not just for China, but also for the world market as a whole.
Richard Grasso
