Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all.
—Nikita Khrushchev
Topics: Individuality
Revolutions are not made for export.
—Nikita Khrushchev
Topics: Revolutions, Revolution, Revolutionaries
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.
—Nikita Khrushchev
Topics: Food, Eating
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.
—Nikita Khrushchev
Topics: Politicians, Promises, Politics
Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one’s wishes.
—Nikita Khrushchev
Topics: Wishes
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.
—Nikita Khrushchev
Topics: Politics
When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.
—Nikita Khrushchev
Topics: Business
If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
—Nikita Khrushchev
Topics: Compromise
I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.
—Nikita Khrushchev
Topics: Government
When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything.
—Nikita Khrushchev
Topics: Capitalism
Life is short; live it up.
—Nikita Khrushchev
Topics: Life and Living
Politicians are the same all over.
They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
—Nikita Khrushchev
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