- Statesman | March 2, 1931 -
Starting reforms in the Soviet Union was only possible from above, only from above. Any attempt to go from below was suppressed, suppressed in a most resolute way.
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face.
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The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
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If current technological processes continue without change, the environment will change, and we, the human species, will either have to mutate or even die, to disappear, as many species have disappeared.
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More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.
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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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There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy.
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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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If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.
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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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I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot be postponed.
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What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists.
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