Quotes of Transparency - somelinesforyou

“ At the end of the day it was a guy from Nepal and a guy from New Zealand who conquered the world's highest peak for the British Empire,... Bannister's feat a year later meant as much to the nation if not more. An Englishman had finally got to the top of the mountain. ”

- Frank Deford

“ When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare. ”

- James Thurber

“ This is a time for leadership and judgment that is not compromised in any fashion. This is a time for transparency and a thorough investigation. ”

- Cynthia McKinney

“ 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. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ The liberated man is not the one who is freed in his ideal reality, his inner truth, or his transparency; he is the man who changes spaces, who circulates, who changes sex, clothes, and habits according to fashion, rather than morality, and who changes opinions not as his conscience dictates but in response to opinion polls. ”

- Jean Baudrillard
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