'Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.'
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Shevardnadze suggests understanding the roots of corruption is necessary to eliminate it.
- In plain terms
- Study why corruption happens to stop it from existing.
- What can you take from it?
- Understand the causes to solve corruption.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Why does corruption happen?
- How do you fix systems?
Another view
Some motivations are hard to change.
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