Heroes for a Better World

Mikhail Gorbachev
(1931-)

Russian Politician, Environmentalist, Social Activist
1990 Nobel Peace Prize Winner
1998 National Freedom Award

birthdate: March 2
birthplace:
Privolye, Stavropol kray, Russia

QUOTES

"We desperately need to recognize that we are the guests not the masters of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development, based on the costs and benefits to all people, and bound by the limits of nature herself rather than the limits of technology and consumerism."

"What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars." -- Mikhail S. Gorbachev

Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations.

Peace is movement towards globality and universality of civilization. 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

Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.

A balance of interests rather than a balance of power, a search for compromise and concord rather than a search for advantages at other people's expense, and respect for equality rather than claims to leadership - such are the elements which can provide the groundwork for world progress…

I believe mankind, which was able to bring into being a unique civilization on our planet, will know how to keep that civilization from self-destruction.

We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.

"We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people."

It is my firm belief that the infinite and uncontrollable fury of nuclear weapons should never be held in the hands of any mere mortal ever again, for any reason.

 


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