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)

“On September 16, 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)

“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)