But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying

The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small

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.

He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.

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.

When it comes to combating imperialism we are all Stalinists.

Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.

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!

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.

Let us not talk about using force; we are equally strong. In fact, we can swat your ass.

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one’s wishes

Stalin acted not through persuasion, explanation and patient cooperation with people, but by imposing his concepts and demanding absolute submission to his opinion. Whoever opposed this concept or tried to prove his [own] viewpoint, and...

provided very significant help in accelerating the production of our atom bomb.

If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.

We say the name of God, but that is only habit.

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.

I want a car! I want a house!

Life is short; live it up.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

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?

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

The survivors would envy the dead.

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

I’ll step on your corns any time I want.

Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!

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 anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle.

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.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Revolutions are not made for export.

The USA and USSR will only agree when shrimps learn to fly.

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

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

Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party

Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.

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.

They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.