Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes About Cold War

Quotes about: Cold War

• 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.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  War, Order, Years

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

• The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Unconditional Love, People, Democracy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Motivation, War, Party

• 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.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  War, Nuclear, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• The threat of a world war is no more.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  War, World, Cold

• 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. Many Soviet household appliances are of poor quality.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  War, Poor Quality, Achievement

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Ernest W. Lefever (1989). “Perestroika: how new is Gorbachev's new thinking? : Mikhail Gorbachev's views and responses from Zbigniew Brezinski ... [and others]”, Ethics & Public Policy Center

• The world's deteriorating ecology poses as great a danger to mankind today as did the nuclear standoff between the superpowers at the height of the Cold War.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  War, Today, Nuclear

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