203 Quotes by Mikhail Gorbachev

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.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his speech accepting the Nobel Prize: “Violence has no way to conceal itself except by lies, and lies have no way to maintain themselves except through violence. Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.

We won’t survive if someone loses their nerves in the current tension.

You shouldn’t believe everything you read on the Internet, especially from sites that can be edited by anyone with a working email address.

Ideological and political intolerance, even with the best and most sincere intentions, produces results that are the direct opposite of those intended.

In the end, the “model” that came into existence in the USSR was not socialist but totalitarian. This is a serious matter to be reflected on by all who seriously aspire to progress for the benefit of the human race.

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

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.