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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: March 2
Environmentalist
Former General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of The Soviet Union
Jurist
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Krasnogvardeysky District
Stavropol Krai
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The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong.
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According to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible.... The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy and revives the Leninist concept of socialist construction both in theory and in practice. We want more socialism and, therefore, more democracy.
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I support freedom and I support a free market economy, but it should be a socially oriented market economy. I support globalization, but it should be globalization with a human face.
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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.
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For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy.
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The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.
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Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations.
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It is my firm belief that the infinite and uncontrollable fury of nuclear weapons should never be held in the hands of any mere mortal ever again, for any reason.
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Those who are late will be punished by life itself.
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If the Russian word perestroika has easily entered the international lexicon, this is due to more than just interest in what is going on in the Soviet Union. Now the whole world needs restructuring, i.e. progressive development, a fundamental change.
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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.
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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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Nature is reminding us that it used to exist without human beings.
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We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.
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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.
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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.
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The emerging 'environmentalization' of our civilization and the need for vigorous action in the interest of the entire global community will inevitably have multiple political consequences. Perhaps the most important of them will be a gradual change in the status of the United Nations. Inevitably, it must assume some aspects of a world government.
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