Wole Soyinka Quotes About Fighting

Quotes about: Fighting

• It's my duty to fight those who have chosen to belong to the party of death, those who say they receive their orders from God somewhere and believe they have a duty to set the world on fire to achieve their own salvation.

  Wole Soyinka

  Party, Believe, Fighting

  "Criticism Starts at Home". Interview with Henry Louis Gates Jr., www.nytimes.com. August 5, 2004.

• As a president, you've got to show some example. I am disturbed for instance when I read that a candidate said, 'I will not probe anybody or something like that'. You don't fight corruption by sweeping everything under the carpet, you don't. You just say, am going to allow the law take its course; I am going to empower the agencies which has been set up for such specific purpose of stemming the corrupt out flow of resources from this nation and don't even talk to me about corruption beyond saying you going to strengthen existing institutions.

  Wole Soyinka

  Fighting, Agency, Law

  Source: saharareporters.com

• When you fight corruption, corruption strikes back and that is the truth because when you fight corruption, you get confidence and when it gets to impunity, then it gets aggressive and says, 'oh, so you think you are different? You think you are tough and different?' This is why some of us are almost permanently in the libel court.

  Wole Soyinka

  Fighting, Thinking, Different

  Source: saharareporters.com

• It is not fair to those who fight corruption that they have to fight the aggressiveness, the impunity of the corrupt.

  Wole Soyinka

  Fighting, Corruption, Fairs

  Source: saharareporters.com

• I am disturbed for instance when I read that a candidate said, 'I will not probe anybody or something like that'. You don't fight corruption by sweeping everything under the carpet, you don't.

  Wole Soyinka

  Fighting, Corruption, Disturbed

  Source: secure.saharareporters.com

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