The social model of the Bolsheviks failed, as will any model that denies individual rights, intellectual freedom, and freedom of competing political parties. Without these freedoms and rights, there is no motivation for people to work. Such a system cannot be sustained, especially in light of the technological revolution of the information era.
If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today. - Mikhail Gorbachev
If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.
- Mikhail Gorbachev
Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences. - Mikhail Gorbachev
Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.
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 punish… - Mikhail Gorbachev
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 punish…
The threat of environmental crisis is the 'international disaster key' to unlock the New World Order. - Mikhail Gorbachev
The threat of environmental crisis is the 'international disaster key' to unlock the New World Order.
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. - Mikhail Gorbachev
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.
History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it. - Mikhail Gorbachev
History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.
If not me, who? And if not now, when? - Mikhail Gorbachev
If not me, who? And if not now, when?
I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my ca… - Mikhail Gorbachev
I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my ca…
Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for … - Mikhail Gorbachev
Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for …
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