Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964.
Nikita Khrushchev Quotes
1. “We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
2. “Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
3. “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
4. “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
5. “If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
6. “Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
7. “The living will envy the dead.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
8. “Once you pledge, don’t hedge.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
9. “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
10. “Historians are dangerous people. They are capable of upsetting everything.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
11. “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
12. “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
13. “The press is our chief ideological weapon.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
14. “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
15. “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
16. “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
17. “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
18. “Gagarin flew into space, but didn’t see any god there.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
19. “The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
20. “They talk about who won and who lost. Human reason won. Mankind won.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
21. “Let there be more corn and more meat and let there be no hydrogen bombs at all.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
22. “The United States now sleeps under a Soviet moon.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
23. “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
24. “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
25. “They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
26. “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?’”
— Nikita Khrushchev
27. “Don’t you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?”
— Nikita Khrushchev
28. “No matter how humble a man’s beginnings, he achieves the stature of the office to which he is elected.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
29. “Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!”
— Nikita Khrushchev
30. “Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
31. “Without Spam, we wouldn’t have been able to feed our army.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
32. “When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
33. “Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one’s wishes.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
34. “If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
35. “When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
36. “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
37. “Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
38. “If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
39. “In the future, if nuclear weapons are unleashed there will be no front and no rear.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
40. “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
41. “The more bombers the less room for doves of peace.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
42. “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.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
43. “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
44. “The USA and USSR will only agree when shrimps learn to fly.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
45. “My arms are up to the elbows in blood. That is the most terrible thing that lies in my soul.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
46. “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
47. “Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
48. “What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
49. “We say the name of God, but that is only habit.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
50. “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
51. “Mr. President, call the toady of American imperialism to order.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
52. “In a fight you don’t stop to choose your cudgels.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
53. “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
54. “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
55. “Of all cities in the United States I have seen, San Francisco is the most beautiful.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
56. “Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
57. “Revolutions are not made for export.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
58. “I don’t understand the music but I certainly understand the girl singer!”
— Nikita Khrushchev
59. “I don’t like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
60. “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
61. “The one who loses his head no longer cares about his hair.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
62. “Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
63. “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
64. “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
65. “But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
66. “He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
67. “I am not afraid of the devil, and you are just a man.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
68. “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
69. “I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
70. “If the people believe there’s an imaginary river out there, you don’t tell them there’s no river there. You build an imaginary bridge over the imaginary river.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
71. “I know what I say at times is not very diplomatic.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
72. “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
73. “One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
74. “You stuck listening devices all over the dacha – even in the bathroom. You spend the people’s money to eavesdrop on my farts.”
— Nikita Khrushchev
