12 Nikita Khrushchev Quotes on Power

Nikita Khrushchev quotes on power

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

5. Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all.

7. Don't you worry about the foreign minister. The foreign minister will do anything I tell him. If I say: 'take down your trousers and sit with your bare bottom on a block of ice', Gromyko will do so until further notice.

19. 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.

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

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

24. Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

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29. 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.

33. Historians are the most powerful and dangerous members of any society. They must be watched carefully... They can spoil everything.

38. We'll kick you so hard you won't remember your own name.

39. The United States now sleeps under a Soviet moon.

41. A mere flea hop.