Nikita Khrushchev Quotes

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

He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.

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

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

Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.

the construction of a communist society would be completed 'in the main' by 1980

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

You do not know, you cannot know, the difficulty of the life of a politician. It means every minute of the day or night, every ounce of your energy. There is no rest, no relaxation. Enjoyment? A politician does not know the meaning of the word.

Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched.

When I was young, I worked for a capitalist twelve hours a day and I was always tired. Now I work for myself twenty hours a day and I never get tired

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.

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.

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.

They talk about who won and who lost. Human reason won. Mankind won.

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.

Of all cities in the United States I have seen, San Francisco is the most beautiful.

Let there be more corn and more meat and let there be no hydrogen bombs at all.

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

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.

The dictatorship of the proletariat and the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party are indispensable conditions for the triumph of the Socialist revolution and the building of Socialism.

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.

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.

I know what I say at times is not very diplomatic.

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.

Historians are dangerous people. They are capable of upsetting everything.

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

The more bombers the less room for doves of peace.