ABSTRACT
Corruption is not merely a disease of our government. Corruption is a chronic malady of our society. The attempt to make corruption the primary problem of our national life seeks to make us forget the real cause of our degradation and of our apparently inherent propensity for corrupt activities. Graft and corruption persist, like a cancer gnawing at our entrails, showing no signs of abatement and consigning us to a state of helplessness and hopelessness. Closely related to wrong-doing in government is the correspondingly corrupt attitude of our people towards official morality. The seed of corruption is planted early and grows fast. The corrupt society produces a corrupt government and such a government aggravates and deepens national corruption. Corruption in government is not limited to acts of malversation of public funds. Policies, too, may be manifestations of the corrupt spirit. Corruption is merely the consequence of a more basic problem—the problem of our colonial economy and thinking.
