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

You must never believe all these things which the scientists say because they always want more than they can get-they are never satisfied.

You stuck listening devices all over the dacha
even in the bathroom. You spend the people's money to eavesdrop on my farts.

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

Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any god there.

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

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 I was young, I worked for a capitalist twelve hours a day and I was always tired. Now I work for myself twenty hours a day and I never get tired

I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick.

What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.

No matter how humble a man's beginnings, he achieves the stature of the office to which he is elected.

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

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

The United States now sleeps under a Soviet moon

Mr. President, call the toady of American imperialism to order.

Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war.

The living will envy the dead.

Once you pledge, don't hedge.

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

When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything.

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

The construction of a communist society would be completed 'in the main' by 1980

I know what I say at times is not very diplomatic.

The one who loses his head no longer cares about his hair.

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

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

Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?

We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.

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

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

The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag ... The American people will hoist it themselves.

Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.

Revolutions are not made for export.

In the future, if nuclear weapons are unleashed there will be no front and no rear.

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

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

"Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.

When it comes to combating imperialism we are all Stalinists.

Without Spam, we wouldn't have been able to feed our army.

I don't understand the music but I certainly understand the girl singer!

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

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

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.

He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.

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

If we were to promise people nothing better than only revolution, they would scratch their heads and say: 'Is it not better to have good goulash?'

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

The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.

Historians are dangerous people. They are capable of upsetting everything.

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

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

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

Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched.

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 live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!

Let there be more corn and more meat and let there be no hydrogen bombs at all.

They talk about who won and who lost. Human reason won. Mankind won.

I am not afraid of the devil, and you are just a man.

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

Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.

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.

When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again.

Of all cities in the United States I have seen, San Francisco is the most beautiful.