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Quotes by Nikita Khrushchev

  • The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.
  • Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.
  • There are still some people who think that we have Stalin to thank for all our progress, who quake before Stalin's dirty underdrawers, who stand at attention and salute them.
  • I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.
  • If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.
  • 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.
  • Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.
  • Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
  • Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
  • Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
  • 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 (On military preparedness)
  • Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.
  • We say the name of God, but that is only habit.
  • Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.