Failed States Index

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

“All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.”
—William Faulkner (1897–1962)

“My opinion is that the Northern states will manage somehow to muddle through.”
—John Bright (1811–1889)

“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)