“All war represents a failure of diplomacy.”
Tony Benn (1925–2014) British Labour Party politician
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1991/feb/28/the-gulf in the House of Commons (28 February 1991) <br class="br">1990s
“War is always a failure. It means we’ve failed in diplomacy and we’ve failed in talking to one another.”
quoting A C Grayling
"Complete Hero" (2009)
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Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933) Greek poet
Ionic http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=76&cat=1.<br>Variant translation: Because we have broken up their images,<br>because we have expelled them from their fanes,<br>in no wise are they dead for that — the gods.<br>Land of Ionia, it is you they love<br>still — you whose memories still delight their souls.<br> Poems by C. P. Cavafy as translated by John Cavafy (2003) http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=205&cat=1 <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992) <br class="br">Context: That we’ve broken their statues,<br>that we’ve driven them out of their temples,<br>doesn’t mean at all that the gods are dead.<br>O land of Ionia, they’re still in love with you,<br>their souls still keep your memory.
Andrew Sullivan (1963) Journalist, writer, blogger
"Of Their Choosing" http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/09/of-their-choosi.html, The Daily Dish (20 September 2007)
“Think like a queen. A queen if not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.”
Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
Janeane Garofalo (1964) comedian, actress, political activist, writer
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!
Howard Zinn book A People's History of the United States
Source: A People's History of the United States (1980), Chapter 24. The Coming Revolt of the Guards, Ch. 24
Juliana Hatfield (1967) American guitarist/singer-songwriter and author
"Total System Failure"
Juliana's Pony: Total System Failure (2000)
“To North Korea, diplomacy is another form of war.”
Brian Reynolds Myers (1963) American professor of international studies
"Stranger Than Fiction" https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/13/opinion/stranger-than-fiction.html The New York Times (13 February 2005) <br class="br">2000s
Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–1886) Irish bishop
Attributed to Trench by Prof. Connington; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 253.