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
historical soviet
The new European Soviet.
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We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren't enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.
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I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter to be a new form of the ten commandments. They lay the foundation for a sustainable global earth community.
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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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A New World Order is required to deal with the Climate Change crisis.
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It will not be enough to rely on experts. Ordinary citizens must become experts too. It will take public opinion on a wide scale to ensure that world leaders act.
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The shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.
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Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.
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Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.
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I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life
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We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs
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You are fortunate to live here. If I were your President, I would levy a tax on you for living in San Francisco!
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I am an optimist and I believe that together we shall be able now to make the right historical choice so as not to miss the great chance at the turn of centuries and millenia and make the current extremely difficult transition to a peaceful world order.
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It is better to see once than to hear a hundred times.