Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was a politician who led the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964.
He was responsible for the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union, for backing the progress of the early Soviet space program. Famous Nikita Khrushchev quotations on history, politics, purpose, and life will can help you to get a fresh perspective.
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Quotes by Nikita Khrushchev
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. Nikita Khrushchev
If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.Nikita Khrushchev
We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within. Nikita Khrushchev
What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying. Nikita Khrushchev
The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flagThe American people will hoist it themselves. Nikita Khrushchev
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. Nikita Khrushchev
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. Nikita Khrushchev
The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small Nikita Khrushchev
The press is our chief ideological weapon. Nikita Khrushchev
If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you Nikita Khrushchev
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. Nikita Khrushchev
The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small. Nikita Khrushchev
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. Nikita Khrushchev
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. Nikita Khrushchev
Freedom in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power. Nikita Khrushchev
One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseparably linked with the policy of the Communist party. Nikita Khrushchev
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. Nikita Khrushchev
I happened to read recently a remark by the American nuclear physicist W. Davidson, who noted that the explosion of one hydrogen bomb releases a greater amount of energy than all the explosions set off by all countries in all wars known in the entire history of mankind. And he, apparently, is right. Nikita Khrushchev
Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all Nikita Khrushchev
He was a crystal of morality among our scientists. Nikita Khrushchev
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. Nikita Khrushchev
I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time. Nikita Khrushchev
The United States now sleeps under a Soviet moon Nikita Khrushchev
I know what I say at times is not very diplomatic. Nikita Khrushchev
Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched. Nikita Khrushchev
The one who loses his head no longer cares about his hair. Nikita Khrushchev
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. Nikita Khrushchev
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! Nikita Khrushchev
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. Nikita Khrushchev
Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied. Nikita Khrushchev
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. Nikita Khrushchev
But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you. Nikita Khrushchev
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? Nikita Khrushchev
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. Nikita Khrushchev
The survivors of a nuclear war would envy the dead. Nikita Khrushchev
I don’t understand the music but I certainly understand the girl singer! Nikita Khrushchev
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. Nikita Khrushchev
Revolutions are not made for export. Nikita Khrushchev
Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin. Nikita Khrushchev
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man. Nikita Khrushchev
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. Nikita Khrushchev
I don’t like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick. Nikita Khrushchev
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. Nikita Khrushchev
Of all cities in the United States I have seen, San Francisco is the most beautiful. Nikita Khrushchev
You must never believe all these things which the scientists say because they always want more than they can get they are never satisfied. Nikita Khrushchev quotes on science
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you! Nikita Khrushchev
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. Nikita Khrushchev
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. Nikita Khrushchev
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!Nikita Khrushchev
In a fight you don’t stop to choose your cudgels. Nikita Khrushchev
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man. Nikita Khrushchev
My arms are up to the elbows in blood. That is the most terrible thing that lies in my soul. Nikita Khrushchev
If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf. Nikita Khrushchev
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. Nikita Khrushchev
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. Nikita Khrushchev Quotes
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. Nikita Khrushchev
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. Nikita Khrushchev
Mr. President, call the toady of American imperialism to order. Nikita Khrushchev
Historians are dangerous people. They are capable of upsetting everything. Nikita Khrushchev
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. Nikita Khrushchev
The one who loses his head no longer cares about his hair. Nikita Khrushchev
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. Nikita Khrushchev
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. Nikita Khrushchev
We say the name of God, but that is only habit. Nikita Khrushchev
When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again. Nikita Khrushchev
The more bombers the less room for doves of peace. Nikita Khrushchev
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. Nikita Khrushchev
In the future, if nuclear weapons are unleashed there will be no front and no rear. Nikita Khrushchev
Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything. Nikita Khrushchev
What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children? Nikita Khrushchev
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. Nikita Khrushchev
Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything. Nikita Khrushchev
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. Nikita Khrushchev
What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying. Nikita Khrushchev
When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything. Nikita Khrushchev
If Adenauer were here with us in the sauna, we could see for ourselves that Germany is and will remain divided but also that Germany never will rise again. Nikita Khrushchev
Of all cities in the United States I have seen, San Francisco is the most beautiful. Nikita Khrushchev
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. Nikita Khrushchev
Gagarin flew into space, but didn’t see any god there. Nikita Khrushchev
When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything. Nikita Khrushchev
The USA and USSR will only agree when shrimps learn to fly. Nikita Khrushchev
Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder. Nikita Khrushchev
