“So now what? What happens when words fail us?”
Nick Hornby book How to Be Good
Source: How to Be Good
“War is what happens when language fails.”
— Margaret Atwood, book The Robber Bride
The Robber Bride (1993), Ch. 6
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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!
“Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.”
Oskar Schindler (1908–1974) German industrialist and Holocaust rescuer
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.
Jeffrey Montgomery (1953–2016) American LGBT rights activist and public relations executive
America...You Kill Me
