Nikita Khrushchev Quotes

• Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Topics in Politics

• We had no use for the teachings of the Gospels: if someone slaps you, just turn the other cheek. We had shown that anyone who slapped us on our cheek would get his head kicked off.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Topics in Uncategorized

• They talk about who won and who lost. Human reason won. Mankind won.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Whether you like it not, history is on our side. We will bury you.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Those who wait for the USSR to reject Communism must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Topics in Uncategorized

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

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Literature, Principles

• 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

  Topics in History

  Tags in World, Marriage

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Food

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dogs

• When it comes to combating imperialism we are all Stalinists.

  Nikita Khrushchev

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

  Nikita Khrushchev

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

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Tags in Economics

• Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Topics in History

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

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Topics in Intelligence

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

  Nikita Khrushchev

• What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.

  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

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

  Nikita Khrushchev

• They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.

  Nikita Khrushchev

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

  Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Khrushchev (38)

Birth:	15th April, 1894
Death:	11th September, 1971
Nationality:	Russian
Profession:	Politician, Statesman

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