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,...

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.

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...

if only to get as much clarity and transparency as possible.

My life is an open book; at least this photo album”.~R. Alan Woods [2013]

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

Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.

If you expose what it is that we’re doing, if you inform your fellow citizens about all the things that we’re doing in the dark, we will destroy you. This is what their spate of...

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

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

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

Most of this council believes a stronger ethics code will go a long way toward promoting transparency in Marietta government.

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.

I very much would welcome and do welcome the transparency. To have the Chinese government officially say that there is a 17.7 percent increase in their defense spending next year, I think is a welcome...

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

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.

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

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.

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...

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...

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.

I had a dream about you. I was Nowhere Man, and I was there for you. I was as transparent as the current Presidential administration is invisible to the plight of the poor.

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

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...

We have no secrets from each other, though sometimes I wish some things were more hidden. What’s more transparent than invisible?

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

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...

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...

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

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...

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...

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.

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...

You have complete permission to enter my mind, probing all my thoughts, looking for whatever you need to know. There is nothing I intend to hide from you. No matter what you will find, either...

I show my scars so that others know they can heal.

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

Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

We need to know exactly what is happening and what we’re talking about, and I pledge my full transparency [and] coming back to you as soon as we know more of this information to inform...