Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes

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• The shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.
• Those who are late will be punished by life itself.
• We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people.
• God has given us enough wisdom to make improvements in our relations.
• To me, nature is sacred; trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.
• I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are…
• In principle as a philosophy, a model of organising society, Communism has to be respected. As regards the use of certain methods to advance social…
• The time has come to develop integrated global policies.
• The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization.
• New approaches are needed, new orientations in both thought and action. We must make the transition to a new civilization...We are talking of a transition…
• It will not be enough to rely on experts. Ordinary citizens must become experts too. It will take public opinion on a wide scale to…
• My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.
• ...the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant...has painfully affected the Soviet people, and shocked the international community. For the first time, we confront the real…
• It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an…
• You cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another.
• A New World Order is required to deal with the Climate Change crisis.
• I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter to be a new form of the ten commandments. They lay the foundation for a sustainable global…
• We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis.…
• We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.
• The threat of a world war is no more.

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