Quotes About Perestroika

#1. I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#2. Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

Carlos Fuentes

#3. I don't have many Russian friends. My childhood friends are dead - either from bad health, or they died in perestroika.

Leon Max

#4. Mr. Gorbachev initiated Glasnost, Perestroika, so he was already, you know, way disenchanted with the rigid Communist ideology, and he was looking to become an international leader. He was more accepted actually outside of the Communist Soviet Union than inside.

Deepak Chopra

#5. Perestroika is nothing but a spectacle organized from above.

Alexander Zinoviev

#6. Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#7. If the Russian word " perestroika " has easily entered the international lexicon, this is due to more than just interest in what is going on in the Soviet Union. Now the whole world needs restructuring, i.e. progressive development, a fundamental change.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#8. I was among one of the first entrepreneurs to start building their own private enterprise when Perestroika began in Russia and the state initiated its first market-oriented reforms.

Yelena Baturina

#9. The opponents of perestroika had suffered a defeat, and then they organized the coup.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#10. Sometimes people ask me why I began perestroika. Were the causes basically domestic or foreign? The domestic reasons were undoubtedly the main ones, but the danger of nuclear war was so serious that it was a no less significant factor.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#11. Perestroika is nothing more than refined Stalinism.

Dan Quayle

#12. I started like many young Russian people in the beginning of perestroika when it seemed that everything was possible.

Roustam Tariko

#13. We certainly hoped perestroika would win out and that there would be changes. We knew all along that socialism could flourish only with a certain amount of freedom and democracy.

Stefan Heym

#14. The experience of opposing mass movements was acquired by the KGB during perestroika. It was then that the politicians decided to develop and nourish mass movements for their purposes.

Vladimir Bukovsky

#15. According to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible ... The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy and revives the Leninist concept of socialist construction both in theory and in practice. We want more socialism and, therefore, more democracy.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#16. The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alternatives to failed and dangerous policies at home and abroad.

Stephen Cohen

#17. What would I have been if not for perestroika? An engineer with a pathetic salary.

Svetlana Alexievich

#18. My back went out and I gained 40 pounds while sweating over 'Perestroika.' It was incredibly hard, the hardest thing I had to do before the screenplay to 'Lincoln.'

Tony Kushner

#19. I have long ago made a final and irrevocable decision. Nothing and no one, no pressure, cither from the right or from the left, will make me abandon the positions of perestroika and new thinking. I do not intend to change my views or convictions. My choice is a final one.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#20. Every part of our program of perestroika - and the program as a whole, for that matter - is fully based on the principle of more socialism and more democracy.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#21. 'Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical and ambitious augury of an era since Tennessee Williams's 'The Glass Menagerie.'

John Lahr

#22. A popular anecdote described a dog praising perestroika, saying, "My chain is a little longer, the dish is further away, but I can now bark all I want.

Conor O'Clery

#23. An expert is someone who tells you why you can't do something.

Alec Issigonis

#24. It cast an unholy glow all around him - which was entirely appropriate, because Julian was as seductive as mortal sin and as haughty as the devil.

L.J.Smith

#25. Bit by bit [the Second World War] really changed my view of what people were capable of, and therefore what human nature was.

William Golding

#26. Taran. We go down fighting.

Elizabeth Wein

#27. Verbal fluency is the product of hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is hte product of hours spent repeating scales." p. 26

Stanley Fish

#28. Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.

Ole Hallesby

#29. I'm tryna do it all tonight, I got plans. I got a certain lust for life, and as it stands.

Drake

#30. Anger is an alarm system, signaling the presence of nothing more than fear. It tells us we are working at cross-purposes to our own happiness, fearing the loss of something more than we enjoy the experience of having it.

Jesse D. Jennings