What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
In principle as a philosophy, a model of organising society, Communism has to be respected. As regards the use of certain methods… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The social model of the Bolsheviks failed, as will any model that denies individual rights, intellectual freedom, and freedom of competing political… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The problem the world faces today is that only one-third of the world's population lives in decent circumstances, while half the population… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
I remember Secretary of State [George] Shultz one day saying that America is an economic model for the world. I replied to… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Please remember one lesson of the 20th century. One cannot force happiness, impose happiness on nations by imposing any kind of utopia… — 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
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