Capable Quote by Nikita Khrushchev Download Open image “Historians are dangerous people. They are capable of upsetting everything.” — Nikita Khrushchev ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capable Dangerous Historian History People Upset
Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched. — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
The idea that historians aren't affected by what goes on around them I think is slightly fanciful. — Kwasi Kwarteng Copy Share Image
Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Historians have become far too precious. Their work has become ever more specialised and, as they steadily lose the context of their studies, they… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but it stops… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I think there's nothing more dangerous than mislearning lessons of history, and we do it perpetually. — Brent Scowcroft Copy Share Image
Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
When I was young, I worked for a capitalist twelve hours a day and I was always tired. Now I work for myself twenty… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
The dictatorship of the proletariat and the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party are indispensable conditions for the triumph of the Socialist revolution and the… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it or not,… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel.… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
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! — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
the construction of a communist society would be completed 'in the main' by 1980 — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again. — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, they will listen the day after tomorrow,… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you. — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies.… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
When you lived it for years and years and years and seen different characters just get pummeled and squashed because 'I said so,' it… — Arn Anderson Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I was terrible student. I was capable, but I never like being told what to do, so I was always in the bottom class… — Chris Lilley Copy Share Image
Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it… — Theodore Guerin Copy Share Image
The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I'm attracted to the garden, without a doubt, but I always try and image the wolf that's there, too. And that wolf would be… — Michael Light Copy Share Image