Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes

I support freedom and I support a free market economy, but it should be a socially oriented market economy. I support globalization, but it should be globalization with a human face.

When I cleared out Moscow apartment after stepping down as president, they found all kinds of wiring in the walls. It turned out that they had been spying on me all along.

To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.

Montreal, this wonderful town… Pearl of Canada, Pearl of the world.

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

The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong.

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.

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

Dangers await only those who do not react to life.

It is my firm belief that the infinite and uncontrollable fury of nuclear weapons should never be held in the hands of any mere mortal ever again, for any reason.

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.

America has a right to be a leader. This leadership should be realized through partnership, not domination.

We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.

Even today, a majority of people surveyed say that they regret the fact that the USSR collapsed. But only 9 percent say that they would want it back.

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

Life punishes those who come too late.

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

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.

Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.

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

The new European Soviet.

I say again that I am an atheist. I do not believe in God.

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

It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.

The forests of Russia and Brazil are the lungs of the Earth.

Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face.

The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization.

You cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another.

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

Those who are late will be punished by life itself.

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

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

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.

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

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

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

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