Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev Quotes

We desperately need to recognise 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...

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

Planet Savers: 301 Extraordinary Environmentalists - 2008 by Kevin Desmond

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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.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

The London Daily Telegraph - 7 May 2008)

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I express the very deepest condolences to the family of the deceased on whose shoulders rest major events for the good of the country and serious mistakes.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

Reuters - 23 April 2007

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

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

ABC News - 12 July 2006

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With Yeltsin, the Soviet Union broke apart, the country was totally mismanaged, the constitution was not respected by the regions of Russia. The army, education and health systems collapsed. People...

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

USA Today - 5 April 2006

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

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

101 Best Ways to Get Ahead: Solid Gold Advice from 101 of the World's Most Successful People - 2004 by Michael E. Angier and Sarah Pond

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I began to feel the desire for something more; I wanted to do something to make things better.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

Academy of Achievement interview - 28 October 2000

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I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. Look at the sun. If there is no sun, then we cannot exist. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests...

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

"Nature Is My God" - interview with Fred Matser in Resurgence No. 184 - September-October 1997

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We have retreated from the perennial values. I don't think that we need any new values. The most important thing is to try to revive the universally known values from which we have retreated. As a...

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

"Nature Is My God" - interview with Fred Matser in Resurgence No. 184 - September-October 1997

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Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

The London Daily Telegraph - 16 June 1992

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