Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev Famous Quotes
"Our enemy sees us clearly. ... They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win."
"It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction."
"Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out."
What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.
"Sometimes ... when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face. (Following summit meeting with Ronald Reagan)"
"Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement ... in relations between the two great nations on earth."
"We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs."
"Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management."
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev Quotations
"If you are idle, be not solitary if you are solitary be not idle."
Samuel Johnson
"He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign."
Victor Hugo
"I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to be allowed to be wrong sometimes."
Federico Fellni
"Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike."
Alexander Hamilton
Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.
Frantz Fanon
"While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness."
Gilda Radner
"Minds do not act together in public they simply stick together and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again."
Frank Moore Colby
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Oscar Wilde
"And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind."
Thomas a Kempis