118 Quotes by Nikita Khrushchev

Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one’s wishes.

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

The United States now sleeps under a Soviet moon.

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

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.”

Any fool can start a war, and once he’s done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it – especially if it’s a nuclear war.

There are still some people who think that we have Stalin to thank for all our progress, who quake before Stalin’s dirty under-draws, who stand at attention and salute them.

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

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.