11 Nikita Khrushchev Quotes on War

Nikita Khrushchev quotes on war

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

6. My arms are up to the elbows in blood. That is the most terrible thing that lies in my soul.

14. They talk about who won and who lost. Human reason won. Mankind won.

16. Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything. -BOOM!-

18. 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?

22. The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

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

27. 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!

35. We and you ought not pull on the ends of a rope in which you have tied the knots of war. Because the more the two of us pull the tighter the knot will be tied. And then it will be necessary to cut that knot, and what that would mean is not for me to explain to you. I have participated in two wars and know that war ends when it has rolled through cities and villages, everywhere sowing death and destruction. For such is the logic of war. If people do not display wisdom they will clash like blind moles and then mutual annihilation will commence.

36. Kennedy: We have enough missiles to blow you [USSR] up thirty times over. Khrushchev: We have enough to blow you up only once, but that will be enough for us.

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