Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“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 my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Being at one with nature.”
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“Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.”
-- Mikhail GorbachevSource : Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Green Cross International (2011). “Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change : from the Cold War to a Sustainable World”, p.53, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS
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“It's America calling the shots in everything”
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“It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction”
-- Mikhail GorbachevSource : Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Green Cross International (2011). “Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change : from the Cold War to a Sustainable World”, p.263, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS
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“Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for outward consumption. There will be no significant internal changes in the Soviet Union, other than for cosmetic purposes. Our purpose is to disarm the Americans and let them fall asleep.”
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“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.'”
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“If not me, who? And if not now, when?”
-- Mikhail GorbachevSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“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 as the generations who knew, but didn't care”
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“Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle close to it. People move when there is too little of it. People move when there is too much of it. People journey down it. People write, sing and dance about it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and every day, need it.”
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“We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people.”
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“I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos.”
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“We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.”
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“The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.”
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“My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.”
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“More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.”
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“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 costs and benefits to all people, and bound by the limits of nature herself rather than the limits of technology and consumerism.”
-- Mikhail GorbachevSource : "Planet Savers : 301 Extraordinary Environmentalists". Book by Kevin Desmond, 2008.
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“The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.”
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“The world will not accept dictatorship or domination”
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“People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history.”
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“Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life”
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“For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy.”
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“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.”
-- Mikhail GorbachevSource : Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev (1990). “A Road to the Future: Address by Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ... at the Plenary Meeting of the Forty-third Session of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York, Wednesday, December 7, 1988”
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“The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization.”
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“The time has come to develop integrated global policies.”
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“We are beginning to see practical support. And this is a very significant sign of the movement towards a new era, a new age.... We see both in our country and elsewhere... ghosts of the old thinking.... When we rid ourselves of their presence, we will be better able to move toward a new world order...relying on the relevent mechanisms of the United Nations.”
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“In October 1917, we parted with the old world, rejecting it once and for all. We are moving toward a new world, a world of Communism. We shall never turn off that road.”
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“I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.”
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“Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.”
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“Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations.”
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“Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.”
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