Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
A new world order is taking shape so fast that governments as well as private citizens find it difficult just to absorb… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The threat of environmental crisis is the 'international disaster key' to unlock the New World Order. — 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
Montreal, this wonderful town… Pearl of Canada, Pearl of the world. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The emerging 'environmentalization' of our civilization and the need for vigorous action in the interest of the entire global community will inevitably… — 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
For a new type of progress throughout the world to become a reality, everyone must change. Tolerance is the alpha and omega… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
A New World Order is required to deal with the Climate Change crisis. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
If the Russian word "perestroika" has easily entered the international lexicon, this is due to more than just interest in what is… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The world's deteriorating ecology poses as great a danger to mankind today as did the nuclear standoff between the superpowers at the… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
In October 1917, we parted with the old world, rejecting it once and for all. We are moving toward a new world,… — 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
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
What we're talking about is creating new forms of life on the basis of new values. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order. — 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
We must treat water as if it were the most precious thing in the world, the most valuable natural resource. Be economical… — 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
It will not be enough to rely on experts. Ordinary citizens must become experts too. It will take public opinion on a… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
I don't think Russia is setting this as a goal; I don't think this should be Russia's goal. I think even the… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
I am an optimist and I believe that together we shall be able now to make the right historical choice so as… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
No one, no single center, can today command the world. No single group of countries can do it. Under the current U.S.… — 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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