Nikita Khrushchev

We must take a shovel and dig a deep grave, and bury colonialism as deep as we can.

Peaceful coexistence for the Soviet Union means intense, economic, political and ideological struggle between the proletariat and the aggressive forces of imperialism in the world arena.

You will not be able to smother the voice of the peoples.

It was such fun! The U.N. is sort of a parliament, you know, where the minority has to make itself known, one way or another. We're in the minority for the time being, but not for long.

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

What is this? Are you men or damned pederasts? How can you paint like that? Do you have a conscience?

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

We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to communism, but we can aid their elected leaders in giving them small doses of socialism until suddenly they awake to find they have communism.

We're satisfied to be able to finish off the United States first time round. Once is quite enough.

When I was a young man, I thought the most important thing in life was communism. Now that I am old, I realize the most important thing is grandchildren.

When you are skinning a live tiger, you cannot afford to stop even for a moment.

The United States is a capitalist country, and a capitalist country is a country of gangsters.

We were not born yesterday; we are not children. We are the representatives of the working class. We know how to distinguish between enemies and friends.

The purpose of the U.S. rocket program is to develop a rocket that will be able to deliver a Negro to the moon.

To achieve victory, we must at all costs overcome the resistance of the conservatives. We must overcome the opposition of the reactionaries. We must overcome the opposition of the imperialists. We must overcome the opposition of the opportunists.

The living do not need monuments.

The people will not forgive us if we do not smash the heads of the enemies of the people.

The intelligentsia are not the brains of the nation, but its shit.

I swear to you, we will never drop the first atomic bomb.

We have never had a class of capitalists. We have never had a class of landlords. We have never had a class of exploiters. We have never had a class of oppressors.