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What does it mean?
Corruption should not be an inevitable product of democracy.
In plain terms
Democracy need not automatically lead to corruption.
What can you take from it?
Implement safeguards to keep democratic systems clean.

Where it applies

  • political reform
  • public administration

Putting it to work

  • enforce transparency
  • strengthen accountability mechanisms

Questions to consider

  • What structural changes reduce corruption?
  • Can any system be fully corruption‑free?

Another view

Human nature and power dynamics often make corruption hard to eliminate.

More from Mahatma Gandhi

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  2. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not any man's greed.

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  3. All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind.

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