Politicians and military leaders sound increasingly belligerent and defense doctrines more dangerous. Commentators and TV personalities are joining the bellicose chorus. It all looks as if the world is preparing for war. […] Ridding the world of this fear means making people freer. This should become a common goal. Many other problems would then be easier to resolve. The time to decide and act is now.
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Mikhaïl Gorbatchev: Citations en anglais
As quoted in Planet Savers : 301 Extraordinary Environmentalists (2008) by Kevin Desmond, p. 248
1990s
As quoted in The Times [London] (18 May 1990)
1990s
Nobel Address (1991)
“I began to feel the desire for something more; I wanted to do something to make things better.”
On his ambitions as a youth, in an Academy of Achievement interview (28 October 2000) http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/gor0int-1
1990s
“Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.”
As quoted in The London Daily Telegraph (16 June 1992)
1990s
“My life’s work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.”
The Observer [London] (15 December 1991)
1990s
During a tour of the United States, as quoted in The New York Times (5 June 1990) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE3DD1F30F936A35755C0A966958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
1990s
As quoted in USA Today (5 April 2006)
1990s
Nobel Address (1991)
On the death of Boris Yeltsin, in "Russia's former president Yeltsin dies: Kremlin" in Reuters (23 April 2007) http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL2330837320070423?src=042307_1016_TOPSTORY_boris_yeltsin_dies
1990s
“Dangers await only those who do not react to life.”
Speech in East Berlin (7 October 1989), in German: Gefahren warten nur auf jene, die nicht auf das Leben reagieren, but often cited as "Wer zu spät kommt, den bestraft das Leben", hence the English translation: "He who comes too late is punished by life". (Frankfurter Allgemeine, 3 October 2004) http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/15-jahre-danach-wer-zu-spaet-kommt-den-bestraft-das-leben-1191290.html
1980s
Speech to the 27th Party Congress, Moscow (25 February 1986)
1980s
Nobel Address (1991)
As quoted in an interview with The Guardian (17 August 2011) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/17/mikhail-gorbachev-on-boris-yeltsin
2000s
As quoted in an interview with The London Daily Telegraph (7 May 2008) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/1933223/Gorbachev-US-could-start-new-Cold-War.html
2000s
"Turning point at Chernobyl" https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2006/04/21/commentary/world-commentary/turning-point-at-chernobyl/#.XPoajKR7mUk, Japan Times (21 April 2006)
2000s
Purportedly from an interview in Ankara, Turkey where he was a guest at a seminar at the American University. (February 2000) http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv6n1/gorbach.htm However, the actual source is unverifiable and appears to have occurred with different interviewers https://books.google.ru/books?id=xjMVCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA90.
Misattributed
1990s, Memoirs (1995)
1990s, Resignation Address (1991)
1990s, Resignation Address (1991)
1990s, Resignation Address (1991)
It worked!
1990s, Memoirs (1995)
1990s, Memoirs (1995)
Quoted in https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-50265870/mikhail-gorbachev-tells-the-bbc-world-in-colossal-danger Mikhail Gorbachev tells the BBC: World in ‘colossal danger’, BBC World News,(4 November 2019)
2000s
1990s, On My Country and the World (1999)
1990s, On My Country and the World (1999)
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