13 Quotes about Intelligence from The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust (by Robert David Steele)

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The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust quotes about intelligence

Integrity, in my view, starts with the individual human being and grows in a compounded manner from there. The citizen must be an ‘intelligence minuteman.

— Robert David Steele, The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust


There is nothing wrong with the United States–or the world at large–that cannot be stabilized and reconstructed by restoring the intelligence and integrity of all our organizations across the eight communities (academic, civil society, commerce, government, law enforcement, media, military, non-governmental/non-profit).

— Robert David Steele, The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust


In order for us to live within this finely balanced constellation of complex systems, in order for the Earth to show resilience and last for centuries into the future as an environment of human life, we have to embody three things: a respect for Earth systems and their details in balance; a commitment to discovering and sharing the truth and only the truth at all times about all things; and a commitment to doing no harm.

— Robert David Steele, The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust


I am a patriot. I have always sought to serve my country, in theory a Republic. Learning that secrecy was evil rather than good was my first step. From there it was a steady march toward open-source everything. Now I see all the evil that secrecy enables in a corrupt Congress, a corrupt Executive, a corrupt economy, and a corrupt society. I see that the greatest service I or any other person can render to the Republic is to march firmly, non-violently, toward open-source everything.

— Robert David Steele, The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust


Complexity demands resilience, and that’s what panarchy offers. Resilience in the face of complexity is a challenge even when you apply rigorous intelligence and integrity to develop a coherent and flexible strategy.

— Robert David Steele, The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust


The bottom line is that our government is not intelligent about how it pursues the public interest, because its decisions are not informed decisions (and its interest is generally not the public’s).

— Robert David Steele, The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust


Our concept of truth becomes more universal as we reach higher levels of consciousness and awareness, taking in a wider spectrum of information and possibility. As we adapt a more expanded perspective on our reality, our concept of what is true and meaningful changes–from local to regional, regional to global, beyond global to the galaxy, and then to the cosmos.

— Robert David Steele, The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust


I am personally optimistic. I share the widespread view that we are entering a new epoch during which we can achieve conscious evolution and the elevation of humanity to a constructive steward of the Earth.

— Robert David Steele, The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust


Open Everything’ is everything–it is our mind, our heart, our soul, our destiny.

— Robert David Steele, The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust


As our technological capacities continue to increase and our environment becomes ever more fragile and endangered, we find that changes to the Earth that used to take ten thousand years now take a fraction of that.

— Robert David Steele, The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust


When we relate and share knowledge authentically, this places us in a state of grace, a state of ‘win-win’ harmony with all others, and establishes trust among all.

— Robert David Steele, The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust


Put in the bluntest possible terms, what I discovered was that the U.S. secret intelligence community was collecting only information it considered secret, while ignoring the eighty to ninety percent of the information in the world, in all languages, that was not secret.

— Robert David Steele, The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust


This lack of accurate, trustworthy information about the true cost of any given policy, product, service, or behavior is paralyzing all action.

— Robert David Steele, The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust