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.
Mikhail GorbachevDemocracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
Mikhail GorbachevWe 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 GorbachevYou cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another.
Mikhail Gorbachev