Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes

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• The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously.
• When future generations judge those who came before them on environmental issues, they may conclude "they didn't know": let us not go down in history…
• The new European Soviet.
• Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.
• The threat of environmental crisis is the 'international disaster key' to unlock the New World Order.
• According to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible.... The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy and revives the…
• Every part of our program of perestroika - and the program as a whole, for that matter - is fully based on the principle of…
• 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 Western…
• We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone…
• Americans have a severe disease — worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex.
• Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use…
• The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving the well-being of…
• The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
• With Yeltsin, the Soviet Union broke apart, the country was totally mismanaged, the constitution was not respected by the regions of Russia. The army, education…
• Man is beginning to explore the galaxy. But how much remains undone on earth?
• Life punishes those who come too late.
• People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history.
• We desperately need to recognize that we are the guests not the masters of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development, based on the…
• We are all passengers aboard one ship, the Earth, and we must not allow it to be wrecked. There will be no second Noah's Ark.
• For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy.

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