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Top 10 Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes (2025 Update)

Mikhail Gorbachev Quote: “If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward.”

1. “If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward.”

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev Quote: “If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven’t done much today.”

2. “If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven’t done much today.”

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev Quote: “In the end, the “model” that came into existence in the USSR was not socialist but totalitarian. This is a serious matter to be reflected on by all who seriously aspire to progress for the benefit of the human race.”

3. “In the end, the “model” that came into existence in the USSR was not socialist but totalitarian. This is a serious matter to be reflected on by all who seriously aspire to progress for the benefit of the human race.”

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev Quote: “History teaches us, however, that when the times are ripe for change and the government refuses or is unable to change, either society starts to decay or a revolution begins.”

4. “History teaches us, however, that when the times are ripe for change and the government refuses or is unable to change, either society starts to decay or a revolution begins.”

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev Quote: “The ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren’t enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.”

5. “The ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren’t enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.”

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev Quote: “Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his speech accepting the Nobel Prize: “Violence has no way to conceal itself except by lies, and lies have no way to maintain themselves except through violence. Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.”

6. “Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his speech accepting the Nobel Prize: “Violence has no way to conceal itself except by lies, and lies have no way to maintain themselves except through violence. Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.”

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev Quote: “Ideological and political intolerance, even with the best and most sincere intentions, produces results that are the direct opposite of those intended.”

7. “Ideological and political intolerance, even with the best and most sincere intentions, produces results that are the direct opposite of those intended.”

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev Quote: “It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.”

8. “It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.”

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev Quote: “You shouldn’t believe everything you read on the Internet, especially from sites that can be edited by anyone with a working email address.”

9. “You shouldn’t believe everything you read on the Internet, especially from sites that can be edited by anyone with a working email address.”

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev Quote: “The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.”

10. “The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.”

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev Quote: “With Yeltsin, the Soviet Union broke apart, the country was totally mismanaged, the constitution was not respected by the regions of Russia. The army, education and health systems collapsed. People in the West quietly applauded, dancing with and around Yeltsin. I conclude therefore that we should not pay too much attention to what the West is saying.”

11. “With Yeltsin, the Soviet Union broke apart, the country was totally mismanaged, the constitution was not respected by the regions of Russia. The army, education and health systems collapsed. People in the West quietly applauded, dancing with and around Yeltsin. I conclude therefore that we should not pay too much attention to what the West is saying.”

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev Quote: “We won’t survive if someone loses their nerves in the current tension.”

12. “We won’t survive if someone loses their nerves in the current tension.”

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev Quote: “I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos.”

13. “I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos.”

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev Quote: “At times of profound, fundamental change in the foundations of social development it is not only senseless but impossible to expect some sort of previously worked out “model” or a clear-cut outline of the transformations that will take place. This does not mean, however, the absence of a definite goal for the reforms, a distinct conception of their content and the main direction of their development.”

14. “At times of profound, fundamental change in the foundations of social development it is not only senseless but impossible to expect some sort of previously worked out “model” or a clear-cut outline of the transformations that will take place. This does not mean, however, the absence of a definite goal for the reforms, a distinct conception of their content and the main direction of their development.”

— Mikhail Gorbachev

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