As an article in The Economist observed, the smashing success of Georgia’s fight against corruption is a “mental revolution” that explodes the notion that corruption is a “cultural phenomenon.”

– The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence  by Gary A. Haugen, Victor Boutros

Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things.” He laughed, pretending to wipe sweat from his brow. “I would have to make a list, a very, very long list and make sure I hated the people on it the right amount. That I did a very proper job of hating, too: very Teutonic! No”—his voice became sober—“we always have a choice. All of us.”

– The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman

Ready for a mental revolution? We have a choice.