Nikita Khrushchev Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism, until they suddenly awake to find they have communism.”
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“Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.”
-- Nikita KhrushchevSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.”
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“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 KhrushchevSource : "They Never Said it: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions". Book by Paul F. Boller and John H. George, 1990.
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“If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.”
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“Of all cities in the United States I have seen, San Francisco is the most beautiful.”
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“Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all”
-- Nikita KhrushchevSource : Speech to secret session of Twentieth Congress of Communist Party, 25 Feb. 1956.
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“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.”
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“The press is our chief ideological weapon.”
-- Nikita KhrushchevSource : Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev (1964). “The great mission of literature and art”
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“They talk about who won and who lost. Human reason won. Mankind won.”
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“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.”
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“Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!”
-- Nikita KhrushchevSource : Speech to Western diplomats, Moscow, 18 Nov. 1956.
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“What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.”
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“Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?”
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“What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?”
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“Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.”
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“Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.”
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“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!”
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“If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.”
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“He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.”
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“The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.”
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“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 KhrushchevSource : "Khrushchev Remembers; the Last Testament, Volume 2". Book by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Strobe Talbott (Little, Brown), p. 415, 1974.
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“Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“No matter how humble a man's beginnings, he achieves the stature of the office to which he is elected.”
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“I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick.”
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“In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.”
-- Nikita Khrushchev
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