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Mikhail Gorbachev — Portrait after a picture by Leo Medvedev (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons. This drawing is shared under the same licence.

The quotations of

Mikhail Gorbachev

Leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991

1931–2022

5 quotes, most often on War & Peace.

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
Speech to the 27th Party Congress, Moscow (25 February 1986)
- Democracy
Nuclear weapons are like a rifle hanging on the wall in a play. We did not write the play, we are not staging it and we do not know what the author intends. Anyone could take the rifle from the wall at any time.
What Is at Stake Now (2020)
- War & Peace
All members of the world community should resolutely discard old stereotypes and motivations nurtured by the Cold War, and give up the habit of seeking each other’s weak spots and exploiting them in their own interests.
Nobel Address (1991)
- War & Peace
In the name of Communism we abandoned basic human values. So when I came to power in Russia I started to restore those values; values of “openness” and freedom.
“Nature Is My God”—interview with Fred Matser in Resurgence No. 184 (September-October 1997)
- Freedom
- Politics
Never before has the idea that peace is indivisible been so true as it is now.
Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.
Nobel Address (1991)
- War & Peace

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