Quotes from Nikita Khrushchev


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    If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

    Bird | Paradise | Hen


    They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.

    Tea | Attention | Pay


    When it comes to combating imperialism we are all Stalinists.


    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.

    Question | Eat | Taste


    He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.

    Morality | Crystal | Among


    Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?

    Food | Mouth | Machine


    Revolutions are not made for export.

    Export


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

    Start | Throw | Shall


    Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.

    Communism | Cannot | Marxist


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

    Respect | Economics | Wishes


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

    Work | Incentives | Call


    What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.

    Scientists | Terrifying


    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.

    Colonies | Nation | Rooftops


    I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

    Change | Time | Power


    What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

    Innocence | Ask | Known


    Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.

    Choose | Hit | Bombs


    The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.

    Purpose | Small | Protect


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

    Fight | Choose | Stop


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

    God | Name | Habit


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

    Skin | Leave | Customers


       

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