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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.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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Mikhail Gorbachev
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: March 2
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Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for outward consumption. There will be no significant internal changes in the Soviet Union, other than for cosmetic purposes. Our purpose is to disarm the Americans and let them fall asleep.
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People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history.
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A New World Order is required to deal with the Climate Change crisis.
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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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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.
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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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No one, no single center, can today command the world. No single group of countries can do it. Under the current U.S. president, I don't think we can fundamentally change the situation as it is developing now. It is dangerous. The world is experiencing a period of growing global disarray.
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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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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.
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On the day I became Soviet leader, in March 1985, I had a special meeting with the leaders of the Warsaw Pact countries and told them: 'You are independent, and we are independent. You are responsible for your policies, we are responsible for ours. We will not intervene in your affairs, I promise you.'
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If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.
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The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.
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Those who are late will be punished by life itself.
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Dangers await only those who do not react to life.
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We were nearly one of the last to realize that in the age of information science the most expensive asset is knowledge.
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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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What we're talking about is creating new forms of life on the basis of new values.
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It sometimes seems to me that some of our Western partners do not want Russia to fully recover. They would like Russia to be in a subdued state, and they want Russian resources to be used for the benefit of the U.S. economy.
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To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.
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It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.
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