Quote

For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mikhail Gorbachev
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: March 2
Environmentalist
Former General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of The Soviet Union
Jurist
Politician
Privolnoye
Krasnogvardeysky District
Stavropol Krai
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Gorby
Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachyov
Mikhail Gorbachyov
Mikhail Gorbachov
Ever
Firsts
Uncontrolled
First
Sinister
Time
Confronted
Nuclear
Energy
Reality
Power

More quotes by Mikhail Gorbachev

Image
My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Image
It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Image
What we're talking about is creating new forms of life on the basis of new values.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Image
I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Image
I began to feel the desire for something more I wanted to do something to make things better.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Image
Even today, a majority of people surveyed say that they regret the fact that the USSR collapsed. But only 9 percent say that they would want it back.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Image
I think the United States is sick. It suffers from the sickness, the disease of being the victor and it needs to cure itself from this disease.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Image
To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Image
The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Image
Putin wants to stay in power, but not so that he can finally solve our most pressing problems: education, health care, poverty.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Image
My goal was to avoid bloodshed. But unfortunately there was some bloodshed, after all.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Image
Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Image
God has given us enough wisdom to make improvements in our relations.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Image
I certainly wouldn't say that we loved the arms race. Trillions of dollars were used to stoke it. For our economy, which was smaller in size than the American economy, it was a burden. But one cannot agree with the statement that the arms race played the key role in the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Image
The forests of Russia and Brazil are the lungs of the Earth.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Image
We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Image
Life punishes those who come too late.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Image
Those who are late will be punished by life itself.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Image
We used to have just one criterion and that was profit, and then another criterion was added - social welfare. Now we have to add the third important criterion, and that is nature and the environment.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Image
We desperately need to recognise 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.
Mikhail Gorbachev