Standards Quotes by Mikhail Gorbachev

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

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

— Mikhail Gorbachev

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

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

— Mikhail Gorbachev

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

— Mikhail Gorbachev

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

— Mikhail Gorbachev

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

— Mikhail Gorbachev

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

— Mikhail Gorbachev

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

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

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

— Mikhail Gorbachev

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

— Mikhail Gorbachev