Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931) is a former Soviet statesman. He was the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991 when the party was dissolved.
Sometimes it's difficult to accept, to recognise one's own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.
If not me, who? And if not now, when?
If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.
The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.
We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race.
If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.
A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing.
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 'evil empire.'
The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.
Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.
I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.
More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.
Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present.
What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.
Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.
Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face.
It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.
I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.
On the day I became Soviet leader, in March 1985, I had a special meeting with the leaders of the Warsaw Pact countries and told them: 'You are independent, and we are independent. You are responsible for your policies, we are responsible for ours. We will not intervene in your affairs, I promise you.'
Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can't resolve the problem of women's pantyhose. There's no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic necessities of life. It was incredible and humiliating to work in such a government.
It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.
America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.
I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot be postponed.
Sometimes it's difficult to accept, to recognise one's own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.
If not me, who? And if not now, when?
If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.
The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.
We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race.
If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.
A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing.
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 'evil empire.'
The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.
Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.
I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.
More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.
Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present.
What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.
Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.
Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face.
It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.
I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.
On the day I became Soviet leader, in March 1985, I had a special meeting with the leaders of the Warsaw Pact countries and told them: 'You are independent, and we are independent. You are responsible for your policies, we are responsible for ours. We will not intervene in your affairs, I promise you.'
Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can't resolve the problem of women's pantyhose. There's no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic necessities of life. It was incredible and humiliating to work in such a government.
It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.
America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.
I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot be postponed.
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