Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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• In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Life
  • World
  • Game

• All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Help
  • Health

• Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Lose
  • Economic
  • Recovery

• To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • You
  • Honest
  • Lazy

• Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

  

  Sallust
  • Feelings
  • Tears
  • Word

• I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Movie
  • Like
  • Brain

• A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Man
  • Dragon
  • Button

• Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Writing
  • Living
  • Wrestling

• I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Done
  • Success
  • Failure

• We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

  

  Quintilian
  • Difficulty
  • Sloth
  • Pretext

• The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Up
  • True
  • Past

• I'll always welcome some extra shifts and some extra ice time, and it's my job to be as prepared as possible to play those minutes.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Job
  • Welcome

• I don't want to speculate at this point in terms of who was responsible for this.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Point
  • Responsible
  • Speculate

• Scripture tells us that in our sufferings there is glory, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. Sometimes the truths of these words are hard to see. Right now, those words test us. Because the people of Dallas, people across the country, are suffering.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Country
  • Character

• Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Power

• When I was 15, what I wanted in a boyfriend was just that confidence and swagger. I wanted someone who knew what he was doing, because I was just faking it. What I want for my daughter is the exact opposite.

  

  Ayelet Waldman
  • Confidence
  • Daughter
  • Boyfriend

• Madame Chairman, I presume this is to sweep Britain clean of socialism

  

  Margaret Thatcher

• But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Respect
  • Democracy
  • Link

• Our first and immutable commitment must be to the security of Israel, our only true ally in the Middle East and the only democracy,

  

  Barack Obama
  • True
  • Democracy
  • Commitment

• America is best when we come together with clear leadership, expertise, and the political will to take on difficult challenges and get things done. No one should ever doubt the strength and resilience of our country and our democracy.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • Country
  • Done
  • America

• We live in a society that is based on 30-second sound bites. We have technology that puts all of the information of humankind at our fingertips, but we have the attention span of a three-year-old at a carnival midway on the Fourth of July. We throw around a lot of words like democracy, federal, republic, nationalist, socialist, liberal, and right-wing—but do we really know what they mean?

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Society
  • Technology
  • Democracy

• Fencing made me feel for the first time like a winner.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Time
  • Feels
  • Winner

• Democracy must learn to defend itself.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Democracy
  • Defend