We have no right ever to forget that psychological warfare is a struggle for winning people's minds. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
We desperately need to recognise that we are the guests, not the masters, of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development,… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
...the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant...has painfully affected the Soviet people, and shocked the international community. For the first time, we… — 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 Union was destroyed against the will of the people, and it was done deliberately - with the participation of the Russian… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Even today, a majority of people surveyed say that they regret the fact that the USSR collapsed. But only 9 percent say… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
A new generation of more educated people started to be active. Then society required freedom, society demanded freedom. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Some think that Russia should become a kind of a U.S. province, where it should supply natural resources to the United States… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Globalization was supposed to break down barriers between continents and bring all peoples together. But what kind of globalization do we have… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people. — 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
The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Sometimes people ask me why I began perestroika. Were the causes basically domestic or foreign? The domestic reasons were undoubtedly the main… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed… — 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
I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them a chance,… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Many people who live in big countries like ours thought that we had resources that would work for us for many, many… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
I'm still committed to the socialist idea because the socialist idea, correctly understood, includes the principles of freedom and social justice. It… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving… — 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
