Not only America but all countries should think together about how the enormous might of the sole remaining superpower should be used.… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Nature is reminding us that it used to exist without human beings. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
We used to have just one criterion and that was profit, and then another criterion was added - social welfare. Now we… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
It sometimes seems to me that some of our Western partners do not want Russia to fully recover. They would like Russia… — 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
I certainly wouldn't say that we loved the arms race. Trillions of dollars were used to stoke it. For our economy, which… — 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
