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" A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing. "
Mikhail Gorbachev
Never
Society
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" Sometimes it's difficult to accept, to recognise one's own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that. "
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" Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. "
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" Sometimes people ask me why I began perestroika. Were the causes basically domestic or foreign? The domestic reasons were undoubtedly the main ones, but the danger of nuclear war was so serious that it was a no less significant factor. "
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" I say again that I am an atheist. I do not believe in God. "
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" I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal. "
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" If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum. "
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" Every country should conduct its own reforms, should develop its own model, taking into account the experience of other countries, whether close neighbours or far away countries. "
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" If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today. "
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" Starting reforms in the Soviet Union was only possible from above, only from above. Any attempt to go from below was suppressed, suppressed in a most resolute way. "
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" There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy. "
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Values
" What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars. "
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" Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind. "
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Seek
Mankind
" What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists. "
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Say
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" Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face. "
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" My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could. "
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" Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can't resolve the problem of women's pantyhose. There's no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic necessities of life. It was incredible and humiliating to work in such a government. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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