Quotes by Mikhail Gorbachev

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Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face.
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Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face.
The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.
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The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.
It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.
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It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.
I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.
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I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
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Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
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We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.
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The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.
If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.
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If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.
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.
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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.
Ideological and political intolerance, even with the best and most sincere intentions, produces results that are the direct opposite of those intended.
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Ideological and political intolerance, even with the best and most sincere intentions, produces results that are the direct opposite of those intended.
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