We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.
Mikhail GorbachevThere is only one superpower now and it doesn't know what to do with its status. As a result, we got Yugoslavia and Iraq, and the situation has only got worse.
Mikhail GorbachevA new generation of more educated people started to be active. Then society required freedom, society demanded freedom.
Mikhail GorbachevIt is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.
Mikhail GorbachevNew approaches are needed, new orientations in both thought and action. We must make the transition to a new civilization...We are talking of a transition toward a new civilization. No one knows what it will be like. What is important is to orient in that direction... I am convinced that a new civilization will inevitably take on certain features that are characteristic of, or inherent in, the socialist ideal.
Mikhail Gorbachev