203 Quotes by Mikhail Gorbachev

It will not be enough to rely on experts. Ordinary citizens must become experts too. It will take public opinion on a wide scale to ensure that world leaders act.

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

The shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.

I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.

Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination

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

You are fortunate to live here. If I were your President, I would levy a tax on you for living in San Francisco!

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