Nikita Khrushchev Quotes

My arms are up to the elbows in blood. That is the most terrible thing that lies in my soul.

The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.

The one who loses his head no longer cares about his hair.

Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.

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.

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.

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.

We and you ought not to pull on the ends of a rope which you have tied the knots of war. Because the more the two of us pull, the tighter the knot will be tied. And then it will be necessary to cut that knot, and what that would mean is not for me to explain to you. I have participated in two wars and know that war ends when it has rolled through cities and villages, everywhere sowing death and destruction. For such is the logic of war. If people do not display wisdom, they will clash like blind moles and then mutual annihilation will commence.

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?

Once you pledge, don't hedge.

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

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

If we were to promise people nothing better than only revolution, they would scratch their heads and say: 'Is it not better to have good goulash?'

We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.

When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

"Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.

The USA and USSR will only agree when shrimps learn to fly.

If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.

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.

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.

One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party

Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.

They say that the Soviet delegates smile. That smile is genuine. It is not artificial. We wish to live in peace, tranquility. But if anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself poorly. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle.

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

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."

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.

Without Spam, we wouldn't have been able to feed our army.

I don't understand the music but I certainly understand the girl singer!

In the future, if nuclear weapons are unleashed there will be no front and no rear.

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.

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 United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves.

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 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.

There are still some people who think that we have Stalin to thank for all our progress, who quake before Stalin's dirty under-draws, who stand at attention and salute them.

The United States now sleeps under a Soviet moon

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

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

Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.

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.

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.

Revolutions are not made for export.

Just imagine: I, a Premier, a Soviet representative, when I came here to this city, I was given a plan - a program of what I was to be shown and whom I was to meet here. But just now, I was told that I could not go to Disneyland. I asked, 'Why not?' What is it, do you have rocket-launching pads there? I do not know