Best 65 quotes of Nikita Khrushchev on MyQuotes

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.

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.

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.

Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.

Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.

Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all

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.

Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.

Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.

"Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.

He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.

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.

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

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.

I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick.

I don't understand the music but I certainly understand the girl singer!

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.

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?'

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

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.

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.

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.

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

In the future, if nuclear weapons are unleashed there will be no front and no rear.

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.

Just imagine: I, a Premier, a Soviet representative, when I came here to this city, I was given a plan - a program of what I was to be shown and whom I was to meet here. But just now, I was told that I could not go to Disneyland. I asked, 'Why not?' What is it, do you have rocket-launching pads there? I do not know

Mr. President, call the toady of American imperialism to order.

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

No matter how humble a man's beginnings, he achieves the stature of the office to which he is elected.

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

Once you pledge, don't hedge.

One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

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.

Revolutions are not made for export.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The more bombers the less room for doves of peace.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.

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.

The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.

The thought sometimes - the unpleasant thought sometimes creeps up on me here as to whether perhaps Khrushchev was not invited here to enable you to sort of rub him in your sauce and to show the might and the strength of the United States so as to make him sort of... so as to make him shaky at the knees. If that is so, then if I came - if it took me about 12 hours to get here, I guess it'll just - it'll take no more than about 10½ hours to fly back.

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.

The United States now sleeps under a Soviet moon

The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves.