Mikhail Gorbachev on Life
Browse 7 quotations attributed to Mikhail Gorbachev, catalogued under life, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Mikhail Gorbachev, entry #48833: "I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life."
Attributed to Mikhail Gorbachev, entry #152264: "Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind."
7 Quotes by Mikhail Gorbachev on Life
"I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life."
"Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind."
"My life’s work has been accomplished. I did all that I could."
"Dangers await only those who do not react to life."
"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."
"We're now living in a new world. And end has been put to the cold war and to the arms race, as well as to the mad militarization of the country, which has crippled our economy, public attitudes and morals. The threat of nuclear war has been removed."
"Destiny so ruled that when I found myself at the helm of this state it already was clear that something was wrong in this country. We had a lot of everything - land, oil and gas, other natural resources - and there was intellect and talent in abundance. However, we were living much worse than people in the industrialized countries were living and we were increasingly lagging behind them. The reason was obvious even then. This country was suffocating in the shackles of the bureaucratic command system. Doomed to cater to ideology, and suffer and carry the onerous burden of the arms race, it found itself at the breaking point."