Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes

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• If not me, who? And if not now, when?

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Ifs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Kids, Differences, Diversity

  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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• The threat of environmental crisis is the 'international disaster key' to unlock the New World Order.

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  Keys, Order, Historical

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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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  Fall, Years, Nwo

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• If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.

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  Basketball, Running, Yesterday

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Green Cross International (2011). “Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change : from the Cold War to a Sustainable World”, p.322, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.

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  Writing, Capricious, Creatures

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• The most important thing is who counts the votes.

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  Important, Vote, Important Things

  "'They Were Truly Idiots'". Interview with Matthias Schepp and Christian Neef, www.spiegel.de. August 16, 2011.

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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.

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  Ships, Ark, Earth

  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 social model of the Bolsheviks failed, as will any model that denies individual rights, intellectual freedom, and freedom of competing political parties. Without these freedoms and rights, there is no motivation for people to work. Such a system cannot be sustained, especially in light of the technological revolution of the information era.

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  Motivation, War, Party

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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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  God, Nature, Believe

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• It is better to see once than to hear a hundred times.

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  Leadership, Hundred

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev (1988). “At the Summit: Speeches and Interviews, February 1987-July 1988”, Eagle Publishing Corporation

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• Sometimes its difficult to accept, to recognise ones own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.

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  Mistake, Arrogance, Sometimes

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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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  Future, Issues, Judging

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• 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. Cut the population by 90% and there aren't enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.

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  Cutting, Ebola, People

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• A New World Order is required to deal with the Climate Change crisis.

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  Order, Climate, World

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• Those who are late will be punished by life itself.

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  Procrastination, Late, Stop Procrastination

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• I think the United States is sick. It suffers from the sickness, the disease of being the victor and it needs to cure itself from this disease.

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  Thinking, America, Sick

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• 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 acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.

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  War, Order, Years

  "Gorbachev: US Could Start New Cold War" by Adrian Blomfield and Mike Smith, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 06, 2008.

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• The problem the world faces today is that only one-third of the world's population lives in decent circumstances, while half the population of the world lives on one or two dollars a day. And even as we have this poverty and backwardness, we are facing a global environmental crisis. We need developmental models that will take into account the specific and unique position of each country and at the same time will address the environmental crisis.

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  Country, Unique, Two

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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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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  Moving, Nwo, America

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• Americans have a severe disease - worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex.

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  Disease, Winner, Aids

  "Gorbachev: 'Americans Have a Severe Disease'". Interview with Claire Shipman, abcnews.go.com. July 12, 2006.

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• Please remember one lesson of the 20th century. One cannot force happiness, impose happiness on nations by imposing any kind of utopia on others. The Communist model of society was a kind of imposed utopia for which the Russian people in particular paid a great price. Still, sometimes we see that attempts are being made to impose some other kind of model on the entire world - maybe a Westernized or Americanized model... This is not the way to go because this can only create conflict.

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  People, World, Lessons

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• It will be difficult, even painful, but democracy will prevail in Russia. There will be no dictatorship, although relapses into authoritarianism are possible.

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  Russia, Democracy, Painful

  "'They Were Truly Idiots'". Interview with Matthias Schepp and Christian Neef, www.spiegel.de. August 16, 2011.

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• No one, no single center, can today command the world. No single group of countries can do it. Under the current U.S. president, I don't think we can fundamentally change the situation as it is developing now. It is dangerous. The world is experiencing a period of growing global disarray.

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  Country, Thinking, President

  "Gorbachev Blasts American 'Imperialism'". News conference, www.washingtonpost.com. July 27, 2007.

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• We have no right ever to forget that psychological warfare
  is a struggle for winning people's minds.

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  Struggle, Winning, People

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