Mikhail gorbachev quotes perestroika

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Mikhail gorbachev quotes perestroika

Wikipedia has an article about: Perestroika. Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Perestroika. Follow Author. Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. Learn more. 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. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization. It's called the winner's complex. And we walked like that for our whole life. I don't think that we need any new values. The most important thing is to try to revive the universally known values from which we have retreated. This society is ripe for change.

It has long been yearning for it. Any delay in beginning perestroika could have led to an exacerbated internal situation in the near future, which, to put it bluntly, would have been fraught with serious social, economic, and political crises. 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.

In the beginning we imprudently generated great expectations, without taking into account the fact that it takes time for people to realize that all have to live and work differently, to stop expecting that new life would be given from above. To me, it is self-evident that if Soviet perestroika succeeds, there will be a real chance of building a new world order.

And if perestroika fails, the prospect of entering a new peaceful period in history will vanish, at least for the foreseeable future. I believe that the movement that we have launched towards that goal has fairly good prospects of success. After all, mankind has already benefited greatly in recent years, and this has created a certain positive momentum.

After leaving the Kremlin…my conscience was clear. The promise I gave to the people when I started the process of perestroika was kept: I gave them freedom. Quote of the day There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.