The construction of a communist society would be completed ‘in the main’ by 1980 — Nikita Khrushchev

One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party — Nikita Khrushchev

The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves. — Nikita Khrushchev

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

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

Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don’t think. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river. — Nikita Khrushchev

Politicians are the same the world over: they promise to build a bridge even when there is no river. — Nikita Khrushchev

Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder. — 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 purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small. — 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

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

When I was young, I worked for a capitalist twelve hours a day and I was always tired. Now I work for myself twenty hours a day and I never get tired — Nikita Khrushchev

The USA and USSR will only agree when shrimps learn to fly. — Nikita Khrushchev

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

The United States now sleeps under a Soviet moon — Nikita Khrushchev

The one who loses his head no longer cares about his hair. — Nikita Khrushchev

If Adenauer were here with us in the sauna, we could see for ourselves that Germany is and will remain divided but also that Germany never will rise again. — Nikita Khrushchev

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

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

Revolutions are not made for export. — Nikita Khrushchev

The press is our chief ideological weapon. — Nikita Khrushchev

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. — Nikita Khrushchev

We say the name of God, but that is only habit. — Nikita Khrushchev

I don’t understand the music but I certainly understand the girl singer! — Nikita Khrushchev

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. — Nikita Khrushchev

When it comes to combating imperialism we are all Stalinists. — Nikita Khrushchev

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

I am not afraid of the devil, and you are just a man. — Nikita Khrushchev

They talk about who won and who lost. Human reason won. Mankind won. — Nikita Khrushchev

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

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

We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within. — Nikita Khrushchev

In the future, if nuclear weapons are unleashed there will be no front and no rear. — Nikita Khrushchev

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man. — Nikita Khrushchev