Transparency Quotes

When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare. (James Thurber)
I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through. View quote
Kirsten Gillibrand
The goal is justice, the method is transparency. It's important not to confuse the goal and the method. View quote
Julian Assange
Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, we discovered, its enabling force. Transparency is the only antidote. View quote
Glenn Greenwald
Our whole philosophy is one of transparency. View quote
Valerie Jarrett
You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
If we want to truly regain the public's trust, we can provide greater accountability and transparency with a simple step. Let's start by communicating to our constituents about the votes we take. View quote
Melissa Bean
Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else. View quote
Glenn Greenwald
Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency. View quote
Barack Obama
One man's transparency is another's humiliation. View quote
Gerry Adams
Good law includes a commitment to transparency and an insistence that no person or entity with a conflict of interest should have influence on public policy decisions. (Paul Romer)
Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence, and reference the studies that support your case. View quote
Ben Goldacre
What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency. View quote
George Jean Nathan
Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society. View quote
Alexander Stille
I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken. View quote
Vera Farmiga
The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe. View quote
Arthur Erickson
In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear. View quote
Breyten Breytenbach
To stabilize the nations 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. View quote
Devin Nunes
Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings. View quote
Diane Garnick
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. View quote
Esther Dyson
To be powerful in South America, you have to be transparent and you have to have a very clean reputation. Transparency for me today is a magic word in South America. Power comes from transparency and a track record of execution. (Eike Batista)
Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one. View quote
Helmut Jahn
I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation. View quote
Jeff Weiner
There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life. View quote
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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. View quote
Lee H. Hamilton