Top 87 Quotes & Sayings by Nikita Khrushchev
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.
But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.
What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.
I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.
Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?
The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.
I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.
He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.
Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.
If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
The press is our chief ideological weapon.
In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.
Revolutions are not made for export.
If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!
If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.
When it comes to combating imperialism we are all Stalinists.
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.
They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.
Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.
If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.
The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.
We say the name of God, but that is only habit.
What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?
He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste.
If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.
When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again.
The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy is that Onassis probably wouldn't have married Mrs Khrushchev.
Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.
When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything.
If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.
Everyone can err, but Stalin considered that he never erred, that he was always right. He never acknowledged to anyone that he made any mistake, large or small, despite the fact that he made not a few mistakes in the matter of theory and in his practical activity.
The two most powerful nations of the world had been squared off against each other, each with its finger on the button. You'd have thought that war was inevitable. But both sides showed that if the desire to avoid war is strong enough, even the most pressing dispute can be solved by compromise. And a compromise over Cuba was indeed found.
America has been in existence for 150 years and this is the level she has reached. We have existed not quite 42 years and in another seven years we will be on the same level as America. When we catch you up, in passing you by, we will wave to you.
The one who loses his head no longer cares about his hair.
President Roosevelt proved that a President could serve for life. Truman proved that anyone could be elected. Eisenhower proved that your country can be run without a President.
Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any god there.
Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched.
I can prophecy that your grandchildren in America will live under socialism -- Our firm conviction is that sooner or later Capitalism will give way to Socialism. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.
Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all
The John Birch Society is Communism's greatest ally. With its help we will divide and confuse the American people until they have lost faith in their Government, their nation has ceased to be a major world power, and their country is ripe for revolution.
The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves.
Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war.
You must never believe all these things which the scientists say because they always want more than they can get-they are never satisfied.
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.
The USA and USSR will only agree when shrimps learn to fly.
Historians are dangerous people. They are capable of upsetting everything.
"Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.
The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.
We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.
I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered something about capitalists. They are all alike, whatever the nationality. All they wanted from me was the most work for the least money that kept me alive. So I became a communist.
If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, they will listen the day after tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, "To hell with you."
You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won't have to fight you. We'll so weaken your economy until you'll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.
The Americans have surrounded our country with military bases and threatened us with nuclear weapons, and now they will learn just what it feels like to have enemy missiles pointed at you; we'd be doing nothing more than giving them a little of their own medicine.
The United States now sleeps under a Soviet moon
No one is born a Communist... in the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for their horses even after they have given them to the collective.
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