Mikhail Gorbachev quotes

" My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could. " # Politicians and Politics # Work # Life and Living

" The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy. " # Democracy

" Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life. " # Democracy # Socializing and Socialism # Life and Living

" 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 people there is no contradiction with socialism. " # Free Enterprise # Capitalism # Contradiction

" Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind. " # Jesus Christ # Communism and Socialism # Socializing and Socialism

" I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal. " # Communism and Socialism # Goals # Love

" If the Russian word "perestroika" has easily entered the international lexicon, this is due to more than just interest in what is going on in the Soviet Union. Now the whole world needs restructuring, i.e. progressive development, a fundamental change. " # Feminism # Change # Progress

" Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an obvious lack of efficiency in using scientific achievements for economic needs, and many Soviet household appliances are of poor quality. " # Housework # Science and Scientists # Economy and Economics

" We are witnessing most profound social change. Whether in the East or the South, the West or the North, hundreds of millions of people, new nations and states, new public movements and ideologies have moved to the forefront of history. Broad-based and frequently turbulent popular movements have given expression, in a multidimensional and contradictory way, to a longing for independence, democracy and social justice. The idea of democratizing the entire world order has become a powerful socio-political force. At the same time, the scientific and technological revolution has turned many economic, food, energy, environmental, information and population problems, which only recently we treated as national or regional ones, into global problems. Thanks to the advances in mass media and means of transportation, the world seems to have become more visible and tangible. International communication has become easier than ever before. " # Politicians and Politics # Love # Revolutions and Revolutionaries

" Dangers await only those who do not react to life. " # Life and Living # Attitude # Death and Dying