Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born on March 2, 1931, in the town of Privolnoye, Stavropol Krai, Russia. He was the youngest of six children born to a poor factory worker and his wife. Growing up, Gorbachev experienced great hardship due to World War II and the Stalin regime. In spite of these difficulties, he managed to earn a degree in law from Moscow State University in 1955 and embarked on a successful career as a Soviet politician. As general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), Gorbachev was responsible for introducing sweeping reforms that eventually led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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The threat of a world war is no more. — Mikhail Gorbachev
The world will not accept dictatorship or domination. — Mikhail Gorbachev
Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present. — Mikhail Gorbachev
An awareness of the need for some kind of global government is gaining ground, one in which all members of the world community would take part. — 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. — Mikhail Gorbachev
There are dangerous trends–they are all in plain sight. i would single out two. they are the disregard for international law and the militarization of world politics. — Mikhail Gorbachev
In October 1917, we parted with the old world, rejecting it once and for all. We are moving toward a new world, a world of Communism. We shall never turn off that road. — Mikhail Gorbachev
I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. — Mikhail Gorbachev
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV QUOTES ON DEMOCRACY
The soviet people want full–blooded and unconditional democracy. — Mikhail Gorbachev
It will be difficult, even painful, but democracy will prevail in Russia. There will be no dictatorship, although relapses into authoritarianism are possible. — Mikhail Gorbachev
Contemporary social democracy is what I believe is the right concept. — Mikhail Gorbachev
Democracy must learn to defend itself. — Mikhail Gorbachev
Every part of our program of perestroika–and the program as a whole, for that matter–is fully based on the principle of more socialism and more democracy. — Mikhail Gorbachev
I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them a chance, in the media, in politics, in democracy. — Mikhail Gorbachev
There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy. — Mikhail Gorbachev
In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power. — Mikhail Gorbachev
How did Mikhail Gorbachev become president of the Soviet Union?
Mikhail Gorbachev was named a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1971.
In 1979–80 Gorbachev joined its supreme policy-making body, and in 1985 he was elected general secretary of the CPSU.
In October 1988 General Secretary Gorbachev was elected to the chairmanship of the presidium of the national legislature .
Shortly thereafter Gorbachev restructured the Soviet government to include a bicameral parliament.
In 1989 the parliament elected from its ranks a new Supreme Soviet and made Gorbachev its chairman.
Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women. — Mikhail Gorbachev
One day we took each other by the hand and went for a walk in the evening. And we walked like that for our whole life. — Mikhail Gorbachev
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History punishes those that come late to it. — Mikhail Gorbachev
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV QUOTES ON EARTH
The forests of Russia and Brazil are the lungs of the Earth. — Mikhail Gorbachev
We are all passengers aboard one ship, the Earth, and we must not allow it to be wrecked. There will be no second Noah’s Ark. — Mikhail Gorbachev
Man is beginning to explore the galaxy. But how much remains undone on earth? — Mikhail Gorbachev
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. — Mikhail Gorbachev
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. — Mikhail Gorbachev
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV QUOTES ON HUMAN BEINGS
I support freedom and I support a free market economy, but it should be a socially oriented market economy. I support globalization, but it should be globalization with a human face. — Mikhail Gorbachev
Nature is reminding us that it used to exist without human beings. — Mikhail Gorbachev
People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history. — Mikhail Gorbachev
The human race has entered a stage where we are all dependent on each other. No other country or nation should be regarded in total separation from another, let alone pitted against another. — Mikhail Gorbachev
If current technological processes continue without change, the environment will change, and we, the human species, will either have to mutate or even die, to disappear, as many species have disappeared. — Mikhail Gorbachev
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV QUOTES ON NATURE
We used to have just one criterion and that was profit, and then another criterion was added–social welfare. Now we have to add the third important criterion, and that is nature and the environment. — Mikhail Gorbachev
We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility. — Mikhail Gorbachev
To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. — Mikhail Gorbachev
I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Being at one with nature. — Mikhail Gorbachev
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV QUOTES ON THE SOCIETY
A new generation of more educated people started to be active. Then society required freedom, society demanded freedom. — Mikhail Gorbachev
The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong. — Mikhail Gorbachev
A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That’s the most important thing. — Mikhail Gorbachev
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. — Mikhail Gorbachev
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization. — Mikhail Gorbachev
