Failed States Index

Famous quotes containing the words failed, states and/or index:

“I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.”
—Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)

“So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

“Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.”
—Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)