Quotes by Nikita Khrushchev

About Nikita Khrushchev:

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was a Russian politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964. Khrushchev was responsible for the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union, for backing the progress of the early Soviet space program, and for several relatively liberal reforms in areas of domestic policy. Khrushchev's party colleagues removed him from power in 1964, replacing him with Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Premier.
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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!

Nikita Khrushchev

Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.

Nikita Khrushchev

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

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

Nikita Khrushchev

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

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

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

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

Nikita Khrushchev

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

Nikita Khrushchev

He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.

Nikita Khrushchev

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

Revolutions are not made for export.

Nikita Khrushchev

In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.

Nikita Khrushchev

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

Nikita Khrushchev

If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.

Nikita Khrushchev

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

Nikita Khrushchev

What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.

Nikita Khrushchev

When it comes to combating imperialism we are all Stalinists.

Nikita Khrushchev

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

Nikita Khrushchev

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

Nikita Khrushchev

Author Bio

  • NameNikita Khrushchev
  • DescriptionFirst Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  • AliasesNikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
  • BornApril 3, 1894
  • DiedSeptember 11, 1971
  • CountryRussian Empire; Soviet Union
  • ProfessionPolitician
  • AwardsOrder Of Lenin; Medal "For The Victory Over Germany In The Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"; Hero Of Socialist Labour; Hero Of The Soviet Union; Order Of The Patriotic War 1st Class