C Quotes
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“Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.”
“Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident.”
Source: All Honorable Men
“Corruption is not a Canadian value!”
“Corruption is not bribery but bribery is corruption.”
“Corruption is not what they do , but is who they are now. That they don't see anything wrong doing it anymore.”
“Corruption is one of the greatest enemies of progress in our time. It is the cancer at the heart of so many of the world's problems.”
“Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.”
“Corruption is simply crime without conscience.”
“Corruption is subtle, just like the Bible said. Many young poets have come to me and asked, How am I gonna make it? They feel, and often with considerable justice, that they are being overlooked while others with less talent are out there making careers for themselves. I always give the same advice. I say, Do it the hard way, and you’ll always feel good about yourself. You write because you have to, and you get this unbelievable satisfaction from doing it well. Try to live on that as long as you’re able.”
“Corruption is the bane of Nigeria. Buhari is against corruption. Buhari is not corrupt. He is very clean and disciplined. Election rigging is worse than armed robbery. Buhari wants free, fair and credible elections in Nigeria.”
“Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective.”
“Corruption is the most pervasive and pernicious source of evil in public institutions. People's distrust of public organizations is so profound that they have little faith in their ability to collaborate with them and achieve sustainable development objectives.”
Source: Why Nepal Fails
“Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exist to serve the public, not particular companies or individuals or even elected officials.”
Source: The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
“Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.”
“Corruption never has been compulsory.”
“Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains.”
Source: The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
“Corruption of morals is rapid enough in any country without a bounty from government. And...the Chief Magistrate of the United States should be the last man to accelerate its progress.”
“Corruption of politics has nothing to do with the morals, or the laxity of morals, of various political personalities. Its cause is altogether a material one.”
Source: Emma Goldman
“Corruption often exists because there are too many market forces, not too few.”
Source: Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
“Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.”
“Corruption will forever remain corrupt; unless we go much further to understand its true meaning and source.”
“Corruption wins not more than honesty.”
“Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues.”
“Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.”
“Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.”
Source: Standing tall 2
“Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty, was successfully practised; honours, gifts, and immunities were offered and accepted as the price of an episcopal vote; and the condemnation of the Alexandrian primate was artfully represented as the only measure which could restore the peace and union of the catholic church.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.”
“Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.”
“Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.”
Source: The Annals of Tacitus:
“Corsets do look so pretty. Once I watched it, I was like, "Well, they do look nicer than the way I do normally," but they're really uncomfortable. You start to realize why women would pass out. We had the real ones, and they were just awful. At one point, I was like, "I think that's my spleen that this is digging into." So, if I had a nightgown, that was always really comfy. I had a few coats that I thought were pretty cool.”
“Corsican Checkmate by Stewart Stafford
With one loyal warhorse,
I could snatch victory!
You force an ultimatum,
An eagle downed for wrens.
Are you battle steeds,
Or brood mares of a new stallion?
Or do you take my knight,
In impotent checkmate?
I, Napoleon, ruled Europe,
From Brest to Brest-Litovsk,
A chicken feather’s stroke,
And my empire falls.
You offer exile to Elba,
Reaping rich estates
Which I secured for you,
Silence is my thanks.
Give me your vile scrap,
No death warrant, but close,
I’ll scratch my mighty name,
Here’s my blood — begone!
This about the abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
“Cortax: “Sometimes, life doesn't work out the way you wanted or expected, but that's fine. Keep your head up, chest out, emotions and morals in check and be proud of the person you are. Don't let those unexpected surprises keep you from reaching your goals. And again, be proud, like I am, proud to see my son grow up into a man.”
Source: Healing Monarchs
“Cortejo as palavras para cair na graça dos seus amores tal qual um aristocrata burguês trocando gracejos com uma dama da nobreza a fim de ascensão social por meio de matrimônio.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Cortesia é desilusão embrulhada em papel de embrulho.”
Source: Divergent
“Cortez looked like someone newly in love, the way only twenty-four-year-olds can look.”
“Cortisol vs oxytocin
Dawn of mood”
“Cortissoz was art critic of the New York Herald Tribune.”
“Cortney at times seemed unnerved by Da Costa's general appearance and manner, but most of all by his clothes, which, as always, looked as if they had been made by a good tailor for someone of quite different shape.”
Source: Venusberg
“Corto à lui même: Ce serait bon de vivre dans une fable.
Bouche Dorée à Corto: Oh oui!… Mais toi tu vis continuellement une fable et tu ne t'en aperçois plus. Lorsqu'un adulte entre dans le monde des fables, il ne peut plus en sortir. Le savais-tu?”
Source: En Sibérie
“Corus lay on the southern bank of the Oloron River, towers glinting in the sun. The homes of wealthy men lined the river to the north; tanners, smiths, wainwrights, carpenters, and the poor clustered on the bank to the south. The city was a richly colored tapestry: the Great Gate on Kings-bridge, the maze of the Lower City, the marketplace, the tall houses in the Merchants' and the Gentry's quarters, the gardens of the Temple district, the palace. This last was the city's crown and southern border. Beyond it, the royal forest stretched for leagues. It was not as lovely as Berat nor as colorful as Udayapur, but it was Alanna's place.”
“Corvid looked up at her. "Oh, hello Doris."
"Gertie, dear," she said. "They call me Gertie."
"You used to be Doris," Corvid said as a matter of fact.
"Who?" She seemed unsure of what she was being told.
"Doris, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys?" Corvid carried on when he saw her blank expression. "You must remember Nereus? Your husband?"
Nothing.
"You gave birth to fifty sea nymphs. I guess sea nymphs come out slippy and hydrodynamic, but even so, fifty of them? That must stick in the memory as the day before you felt really sore for a month or so?"
Doris thought about it for a moment. "It does ring a bell. Sorry, who are you?”
Source: Gods Just Want To Have Fun
“Cory Doctorow is a fast and furious storyteller who gets all the details of alternate reality gaming right, while offering a startling, new vision of how these games might play out in the high-stakes context of a terrorist attack. Little Brother is a brilliant novel with a bold argument: hackers and gamers might just be our country's best hope for the future.”
“Coryo was a nickname for old friends. For family. For people Coriolanus loved. And this was the moment Sejanus decided to try it out? If he’d had the energy, Coriolanus would have reached over and strangled him.”
Source: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
“Cos'altro posso fare per incoraggiarvi a far fronte alla vita? Ragazze, dovrei dirvi – e per favore ascoltatemi, perché comincia la perorazione – che a mio parere siete vergognosamente ignoranti. Non avete mai fatto scoperte di alcuna importanza. Non avete mai fatto tremare un impero, né condotto in battaglia un esercito. Non avete scritto i drammi di Shakespeare, e non avete mai impartito i benefici della civiltà ad una razza barbara. Come vi giustificate? È facile dire, indicando le strade, le piazze, le foreste del globo gremite di abitanti neri e bianchi e color caffè, tutti freneticamente indaffarati nell'industria, nel commercio, nell'amore: abbiamo avuto altro da fare. Senza la nostra attività nessuno avrebbe solcato questi mari, e queste terre fertili sarebbero state deserto. Abbiamo partorito e allevato e lavato e istruito, forse fino all'età di sei o sette anni, i milleseicentoventitré milioni di esseri umani che secondo le statistiche sono attualmente al mondo; e questa fatica, anche ammettendo che qualcuno ci abbia aiutate, richiede tempo. C'è del vero in quel che dite – non lo nego. Ma nello stesso tempo devo ricordarvi che fin dal 1866 esistevano in Inghilterra almeno due colleges femminili; che, a partire dal 1880, una donna sposata poteva, per legge, possedere i propri beni; e nel 1919 – cioè più di nove anni fa – le è stato concesso il voto? Devo anche ricordarvi che da ben dieci anni vi è stato aperto l'accesso a quasi tutte le professioni? Se riflettete su questi immensi privilegi e sul lungo tempo in cui sono stati goduti, e sul fatto che in questo momento devono esserci quasi duemila donne in grado di guadagnare più di cinquecento sterline l'anno, in un modo o nell'altro, ammetterete che la scusa di mancanza di opportunità, di preparazione, di incoraggiamento, di agio e di denaro non regge più. Inoltre gli economisti ci dicono che la signora Seton ha avuto troppi figli. Naturalmente dovete continuare a far figli, ma, così dicono, solo due o tre a testa, non dieci o dodici.”
Source: A Room of One's Own
“Cos'altro possono togliermi? Dovunque io vada mi porto dietro il mio inferno.”
Source: La Figlia del Mercante di Seta
“Cos every breath is unbearably painful”
“Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house.”
Source: White Teeth
“Cos people think I'm on drugs and I'm not. I'm really quite... Just a bit of coffee. When I take drugs I start going, Oh, would you like insurance?”
“Cos'è che vogliono? Si rendono conto di essere vivi? Come se la prolungata e intensa esposizione alla morte fosse la condizione necessaria per partecipare appieno della propria vita.”
Source: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
“Cos’è, esattamente, il metaverso? Può essere definito come una nuova realtà digitale che combina elementi di AR, VR, realtà mista, social networking, gioco online, shopping e lavoro. Alcuni potrebbero etichettarlo come realtà estesa (XR), ma è difficile affibbiare una label comunemente accettata al concetto perché – chiariamolo il prima possibile – il metaverso non esiste. Almeno, non ancora.”
Source: Hotel Distribution 2050. (Pre)visioni sul futuro di hotel marketing e distribuzione alberghiera