Quotes By Mikhail Gorbachev

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

The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.

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.

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.

It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'

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

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.

I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.

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

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face.

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.

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

More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.