“War is what happens when language fails.”

Source: Eva Luna

Majority Report, July 22, 2005 broadcast
Majority Report
Context: You know George W. Bush is a war-time president, he says - proudly. Guess what. War is failure! When you are at war, you have failed! When you have gone to a war of choice and lied about it, you're a double-triple, triple-quadruple failure! Or a warlord. It's called a warlord in other countries. A war time president here. One man's ceiling I guess is another man's floor. George Bush is a warlord. He's a failure!

After witnessing a day of Nazi roundups of Jews in Krakow, as quoted in Schindler's List (1982) by Thomas Keneally, Ch. 15. <!-- also in Courage to Care (1992) by the Jewish Museum of Australia -->
Context: Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen. I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

Source: Slash (2007) by Anthony Bozza & Mason Segal,, p. 29

From Wichita Vortex Sutra (1966)

America...You Kill Me

Politics and the English Language (1946)

Abide as the Self