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)

“[N]o combination of dictator countries of Europe and Asia will halt us in the path we see ahead for ourselves and for democracy.... The people of the United States ... reject the doctrine of appeasement.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

“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)