Leadership Quotes by Mikhail Gorbachev

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Mikhail Gorbachev, former Soviet leader, shares eight brief reflections that blend reform, openness, and global cooperation. His concise words give readers a glimpse into leadership that seeks transformation through dialogue.

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America has a right to be a leader. This leadership should be realized through partnership, not domination.

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Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror,…

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The Union was destroyed against the will of the people, and it was done deliberately - with the participation of the Russian…

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On the day I became Soviet leader, in March 1985, I had a special meeting with the leaders of the Warsaw Pact…

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Not only America but all countries should think together about how the enormous might of the sole remaining superpower should be used.…

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It is better to see once than to hear a hundred times.

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I couldn't wait to get to the most powerful position, because I thought then I would be able to fix problems that…

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It will not be enough to rely on experts. Ordinary citizens must become experts too. It will take public opinion on a…

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We have no right ever to forget that psychological warfare is a struggle for winning people's minds.

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In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.

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The shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.

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If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.

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The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization.

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In Russia, there are those who make their money in criminal ways, but I earn everything myself.

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Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace…

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What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command economy and…

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Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.

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For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy.

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A new world order is taking shape so fast that governments as well as private citizens find it difficult just to absorb the gallop…

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The threat of environmental crisis is the 'international disaster key' to unlock the New World Order.

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