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)

“Today’s difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)

“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)