I refer to the article A fish rots from the head first.

It is so apparent that corruption has always been in the blood of our political, social and economic life. For the past forty years of my working life in the private sector, palm greasing is the 'de rigour'.

Anyone who has control over purchases, or licences either in the private or public sector has every opportunity to ask for some form of gratuity. It is part and parcel of our Malaysian way of life. There is no end to this culture unless the man at the top uses the sword of Damocles.

I should think if we were to record every individual case or aspect of corruption, it will take more than the entire 30 volumes or more of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. It will take a life time to go through them!

Even religion cannot overcome this lust for materialism in this global consumerist world.