Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
What we're talking about is creating new forms of life on the basis of new values. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family of peasants, and it was there that I saw the way that, for example, our wheat… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
“In the end, the “model” that came into existence in the USSR was not socialist but totalitarian. This is a serious matter… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
We could still have continued the arms race, but the arms race was pointless, and it was another reason we decided to… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
“One day we took each other by the hand and went for a walk in the evening. And we walked like that… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can't resolve the problem of women's… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Now that we are rid of this syndrome of imposing the communist model on people, now that we've given them the chance… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
We have no right ever to forget that psychological warfare is a struggle for winning people's minds. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The most puzzling development in politics during the last decade is the apparent determination of Western European leaders to re-create the Soviet Union in… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
In Russia, there are those who make their money in criminal ways, but I earn everything myself. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command economy and… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
