Robert K. Massie quotes

Robert K. Massie quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The cat does not negotiate with the mouse.”
-- Robert K. Massie

Source : Robert K. Massie (2012). “Peter the Great: His Life and World”, p.558, Random House

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“There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.”
-- Robert K. Massie

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“The love of power and the power to attract love were not easy to reconcile.”
-- Robert K. Massie

Source : Robert K. Massie (2011). “Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman”, p.449, Random House

#Easy Quotes #Reconcile Quotes
“In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.”
-- Robert K. Massie

Source : Robert K. Massie (2012). “The Romanovs: The Final Chapter”, p.73, Random House

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“One of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The majority of Americans don't have any idea of where we've come from, so they naturally succumb to the kind of cliche version that Ronald Reagan represented.”
-- Robert K. Massie

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“Four of my children are daughters, and Ive watched them devote themselves to reading books about how little girls learn to become women - how they learn to deal with boys and men, and the different hurdles females have to go over.”
-- Robert K. Massie

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