Nikita Khrushchev
The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.Collection: History
Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.Collection: Respect
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.Collection: Nature
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!Collection: History
If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.
When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again.
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?
The press is our chief ideological weapon.
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.
If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.
If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
We say the name of God, but that is only habit.
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.
The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.
Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.
In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.
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.
Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.
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!
I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.
If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?
They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.
When it comes to combating imperialism we are all Stalinists.
Revolutions are not made for export.
What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.
Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.
What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?
He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.
But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches 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.Collection: Fall
We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.Collection: United States
The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves.Collection: Education
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.Collection: Grandchildren
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.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Thinking
"Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.Collection: Wisdom
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.Collection: War
Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for allCollection: Individuality
The United States now sleeps under a Soviet moonCollection: Sleep
Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched.Collection: Upside Down
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.Collection: Differences
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.Collection: Strong
Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.Collection: War
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.Collection: Coal
The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.Collection: War
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.Collection: Running
Of all cities in the United States I have seen, San Francisco is the most beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
Let there be more corn and more meat and let there be no hydrogen bombs at all.Collection: Hydrogen Bomb