Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes About Ideology

Quotes about: Ideology

• 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.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Moving, Writing, Fighting

• Communist ideology in its pure form is akin to
  Christianity. Its main ideas are the brotherhood of all
  peoples irrespective of their nationality, justice and
  equality, peace, and an end to all hostility between
  peoples.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Ideas, Justice, Brotherhood

• What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command economy and dictatorship. The rejection of freedom and democracy, the decisionmaking monopoly of one party, and the monopoly of one ideology all had a chilling effect on the country. That model turned out to be incapable of making structural changes. It did not open up ways for initiative and was overly centralized.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Party, Rejection

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

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