Quotes from Nikita Khrushchev

In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all

Revolutions are not made for export.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any god there.

We say the name of God, but that is only habit.

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 press is our chief ideological weapon.

They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.

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.

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!

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!

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.

Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?

If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

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.

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?

When it comes to combating imperialism we are all Stalinists.

When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again.

You must never believe all these things which the scientists say because they always want more than they can get-they are never satisfied.