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)

    The one who first states a case seems right, until the other comes and cross-examines.
    Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 18:17.

    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)