Michail Sergejevič Gorbačov citáty

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„Demokracia bez verejnej informovanosti neexistuje a existovať nemôže.“

„Únik do minulosti však nie je odpoveďou na problémy budúcnosti.“

„Život potrestá toho, kto príde príliš neskoro; ale toho, kto sa tlačí dopredu, život potrestá tiež.“

„Len ten, kto niečo dokáže, môže si niečo dovoliť.“

„Polopravdy je horšia ako lož.“

„Človek, ktorý sa každý deň bude cítiť dobre, dokáže veľa.“

„Kritika je trpký liek. Pre choroby je však potrebný. Človek robí grimasy, ale užíva ho.“

„Nebezpečenstvá čakajú len na tých, čo nereagujú na život.“

„Život núti zavrhovať návyky stereotypy, zastarané názory a zbavovať sa ilúzií.“

“To demonize all Soviet "leaders" at all levels, to portray them as unqualified villains and evildoers, unprincipled self-seeking scoundrels who were indifferent to the interests and needs of the people — that is a shallow and frivolous approach. Of course there were villains, quite a few of them. But most of those who came to power had the intention of serving the "toiling masses" from which they themselves had come. That the system rendered their aspirations useless, reduced their efforts to nothing, and ultimately snuffed out their finer impulses — that is a separate question.”

“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.”

“The Berlin wall can disappear when those conditions that created it fall away.”

“It is time to consign to oblivion the cold war postulates when Europe was viewed as an arena of confrontation divided into "spheres of influence" and someone else's "forward-based defences", as an object of military confrontation — namely a theatre of war.”