Quotes by Nikita Khrushchev

• The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.
• Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.
• Revolutions are not made for export.
• 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.
• The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.
• The press is our chief ideological weapon.
• They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.
• 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?
• What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.
• When it comes to combating imperialism we are all Stalinists.
• Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
• If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.
• He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.
• When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again.
• Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.
• If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.
• Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.
• But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.
• Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.
• 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?
• Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.
• 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.
• 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.
• I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.
• If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
• If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
• 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!
• 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?
• To succeed, we must first believe that we can