Nikita Khrushchev Quotes - Page 2

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

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

What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.

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

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

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."

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 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.

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.

Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Once you pledge, don't hedge.

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

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

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

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

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