Failed Ideology Quotes

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

[Communism] is the 20th century's most extraordinary political aberration.

Socialism has been an abject failure across the face of the globe, millions have suffered under socialism, and yet we're not doing an effective job communicating that.

Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom. It has failed to produce food.

There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.

When communism failed, it wasn't a good idea that had gone wrong, it was a bad idea that had been sustained with incredible determination in the face of all the commonsense arguments, and at the cost of 20 million lives at least, in Russia, to build the socialist Utopia.

It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.

We are in a bad way. That herd of wild asses' colts [see Job 11:12], braying and kicking up their heels, is an unsatisfactory result of a hundred years of Democracy.

Socialism is the antithesis of opportunity and it's time to reject this failed and dangerous idea once and for all.

Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.

We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.

Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.

Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work.

What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure.