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" 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. "

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

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Life

" I don't think Russia is setting this as a goal; I don't think this should be Russia's goal. I think even the United States doesn't need to be a superpower. China doesn't need to be a superpower. It's a different world. "

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

" I paid too heavy a price for perestroika. "

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

" 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 think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot be postponed. "

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

" Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight. "

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

" 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. "

Mikhail Gorbachev

Only

Union

" I grew up in a family of peasants, and it was there that I saw the way that, for example, our wheat fields suffered as a result of dust storms, water erosion and wind erosion; I saw the effect of that on life - on human life. "

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

Mikhail Gorbachev

May

I Am

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I couldn't wait to get to the most powerful position, because I thought then I would be able to fix problems that only the leader can fix. But when I got there, I realized we needed revolutionary change. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think God has some mechanism that he uses to punish those that make mistakes. "

" I say again that I am an atheist. I do not believe in God. "

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

" We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race. "

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

" You cannot put Russia down on its knees and hold it there because Russia will ultimately pull out. "

" The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy. "

" What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists. "

Mikhail Gorbachev

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Jesus Christ

" 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. "

" If not me, who? And if not now, when? "

Mikhail Gorbachev

Now

Who

" There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy. "