Americans have a severe disease - worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex.
Mikhail GorbachevRead
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
Interpretation
The market is a fundamental aspect of human society, not just a capitalist concept.
Mikhail Gorbachev emphasizes that markets have been integral to human civilization throughout history, suggesting that they are not exclusive to capitalist systems. This viewpoint encourages a broader understanding of economic systems, indicating that the marketplace is a fundamental social construct that has evolved over time, entwined with the development of civilization itself.
In practice
In a discussion about economic history, one might quote Gorbachev to highlight the ancient roots of trade.
Americans have a severe disease - worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex.
Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for outward consumption. There will be no significant internal changes in the Soviet Union, other than for cosmetic purposes. Our purpose is to disarm the Americans and let them fall asleep.
The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.
To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.
New approaches are needed, new orientations in both thought and action. We must make the transition to a new civilization...We are talking of a transition toward a new civilization. No one knows what it will be like. What is important is to orient in that direction... I am convinced that a new civilization will inevitably take on certain features that are characteristic of, or inherent in, the socialist ideal.
According to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible.... The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy and revives the Leninist concept of socialist construction both in theory and in practice. We want more socialism and, therefore, more democracy.
If Heaven and Earth are unable to persist, how could man?
I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning. Everything seemed yellowly blurred, illusive, lost.
There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.
The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.
It is rational to believe, as it is our very existence that is at stake.
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