During the last six years we have discarded and destroyed much that stood in the way of a renewal and transformation of our society. But when society was given freedom it could not recognize itself, for it had lived too long, as it were, "beyond the looking glass". Contradictions and vices rose to the surface, and even blood has been shed, although we have been able to avoid a bloodbath. The logic of reform has clashed with the logic of rejection, and with the logic of impatience which breeds intolerance.


Nobel Address (1991)

Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes

During the last six years we have discarded and destroyed much that stood in the way of a renewal and transformation of our society. But when society ...

During the last six years we have discarded and destroyed much that stood in the way of a renewal and transformation of our society. But when society ...

During the last six years we have discarded and destroyed much that stood in the way of a renewal and transformation of our society. But when society ...

During the last six years we have discarded and destroyed much that stood in the way of a renewal and transformation of our society. But when society ...