Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Raisa Gorbachev, fully Raisa Maximovna Gorbachova née Titarenko
Russian First Lady of the Soviet Union, Fundraiser for Preservation of Russian Heritage
"The maltreatment of the natural world and its impoverishment leads to the impoverishment of the human soul. It is related to the outburst of violence in human society. To save the natural world today means to save what is human in humanity."
"Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty."
"Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark that you always carry in your heart."
"Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one."
"I feel, and I live through, all the same things that our citizens live through. I'm a sympathizer with our society -- and these are not just words."