I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.

We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.

In our discussions here at the forum there was no trace of the futile debate about what is better, capitalism or socialism...We should seek a synthesis of ideas and values that have proven their viability.

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.

The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong.

Every part of our program of perestroika - and the program as a whole, for that matter - is fully based on the principle of more socialism and more democracy.

Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.