Nikita Khrushchev quotes - page 2

We say the name of God, but that is only habit. (Nikita Khrushchev)
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man. View quote
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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. View quote
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What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying. View quote
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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. View quote
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Revolutions are not made for export. View quote
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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? View quote
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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! View quote
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Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder. View quote
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In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels. View quote
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They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves. (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. View quote
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Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down? View quote
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Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything. View quote
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If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. View quote
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I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time. View quote
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He was a crystal of morality among our scientists. View quote
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Don't you know how to paint? My grandson will paint it better! What is this? Are you men or damned pederasts? How can you paint like that? Do you have a conscience? View quote
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We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to communism, but we can aid their elected leaders in giving them small doses of socialism until suddenly they awake to find that they have communism. View quote
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(When talking to US President Truman on a visit to America regarding how healthy the crops looked) "If you had made it (how to raise crops so well) a secret, I would have known about it." View quote
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Are you real men or some goddamned faggots? (Nikita Khrushchev)
Stalin originated the concept of 'enemy of the people.' View quote
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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. View quote
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When it comes to combating imperialism we are all Stalinists. View quote
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Stalin acted not through persuasion, explanation and patient cooperation with people, but by imposing his concepts and demanding absolute submission to his opinion. Whoever opposed this concept or tried to prove his own viewpoint, and the correctness of his own position, was doomed to removal from the leading collective and to subsequent moral and physical annihilation. View quote
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