203 Quotes by Mikhail Gorbachev

I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos.

The ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren't enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.

A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing.

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

I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter to be a new form of the ten commandments. They lay the foundation for a sustainable global earth community.

If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.

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

Sometimes it's difficult to accept, to recognise one's own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.