Nikita Khrushchev Quotes - Page 2

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

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Business, Skins, Should

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• 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

  Mistake, Matter, Facts

  Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev (1963). “Khrushchev Speaks: Selected Speeches, Articles, and Press Conferences, 1949-1961”

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  Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  War, Bombs

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• No one is born a Communist... in the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for their horses even after they have given them to the collective.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Wisdom, Horse, Barns

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• 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

  People, Politics, Today

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• 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

  Country, Military, Medicine

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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 Khrushchev

  Thinking, Views, Hands

  "Khrushchev Remembers; the Last Testament, Volume 2". Book by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Strobe Talbott (Little, Brown), p. 415, 1974.

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• 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

  War, Sides, Cold

  Speech to Western diplomats at reception in Moscow for Polish leader Mr Gomulka, 18 Nov. 1956, in The Times 19 Nov. 1956

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• Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any god there.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Space, Flew

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• The USA and USSR will only agree when shrimps learn to fly.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Usa, Shrimp, Learn To Fly

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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.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Men, Giving, Support

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

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Names, Habit

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• What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Scary, Scientist, Briefcases

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

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Beautiful, Cities, San Francisco

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• 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

  Party, Communication, Triumph

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• 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

  Believe, Science, Research

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• They say that the Soviet delegates smile. That smile is genuine. It is not artificial. We wish to live in peace, tranquility. But if anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself poorly. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Believe, Teaching, Waiting

  Speech at dinner for visiting East German dignitaries, Moscow, 17 Sept. 1955

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• Historians are dangerous people. They are capable of upsetting everything.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  People, Upset, Dangerous

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• 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

  War, Years, America

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• When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Switzerland, World, Socialist

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• Once you pledge, don't hedge.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Friendship, Pledge

  Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev (1964). “The great mission of literature and art”

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

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Couple, Hedgehogs, Cold War

  In New York Times 7 Nov. 1963

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

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Lying, Blood, Soul

  "Khrushchev: The Man and His Era". Book by William Taubman, 2002.

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• But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  School, Bangs, Life Is

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• Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Hard Work, People, Incentives

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