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.
Nikita S. Khrushchev
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The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
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.
Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.
Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.
Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all.
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?
Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?
He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.
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.
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.
I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.
I'll step on your corns any time I want.
If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
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!
If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.
If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.
In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.
Life is short. Live it up.
Revolutions are not made for export.
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy is that Onassis probably wouldn't have married Mrs Khrushchev.
The press is our chief ideological weapon.
The survivors would envy the dead.
There are still some people who think that we have Stalin to thank for all our progress, who quake before Stalin's dirty underdrawers, who stand at attention and salute them.
They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.
We say the name of God, but that is only habit.
What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?
When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again.
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
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