Author: Mikhail Gorbachev

Quotes

There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy.

There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy.

- Mikhail Gorbachev

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

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

- Mikhail Gorbachev

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.

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

More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.

More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.

- Mikhail Gorbachev

I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.

I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.

- Mikhail Gorbachev

I think God has some mechanism that he uses to punish those that make mistakes.

I think God has some mechanism that he uses to punish those that make mistakes.

- Mikhail Gorbachev

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

- Mikhail Gorbachev

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

- Mikhail Gorbachev

Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.

Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.

- Mikhail Gorbachev

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