If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
— Nikita Khrushchev
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.
When it comes to combating imperialism we are all Stalinists.
The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.
In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.
Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.
They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.
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.
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.
We say the name of God, but that is only habit.
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.
But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.
What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.
If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.
Revolutions are not made for export.
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 want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.
Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.
Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.
If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again.
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?
The press is our chief ideological weapon.
What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?
If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.
Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?
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!
