Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev; born 2 March 1931) is a former Soviet statesman. He was the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991 when the party was dissolved. He served as the country's head of state from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991. He was the only General Secretary in the history of the Soviet Union to have been born after the October...
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth2 March 1931
CityPrivolnoye, Russia
technology people cost
We desperately need to recognize that we are the guests not the masters of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development, based on the costs and benefits to all people, and bound by the limits of nature herself rather than the limits of technology and consumerism.
earth ships ark
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.
improvement enough given
God has given us enough wisdom to make improvements in our relations.
work mean past
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.
stars war needs
What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.
country freedom race
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.
peace broken mind
Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.
cutting people united-states
Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.
faces sometimes face-to-face
Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face
moving nwo world
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.
air organization democracy
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life
inspiring responsibility unity
We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.
believe cosmos pantheism
I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos.
america calling-the-shots calling
It's America calling the shots in everything