Courses Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.

— Raymond Queneau

Happy people have no history.

— Leo Tolstoy

“You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have no history.”

— Albert Camus

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people,…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

History only repeats itself when it has nothing to say.

— Tasneem Hameed

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books.

— Thomas Carlyle

“Neither the colourless vagueness of cosmopolitanism, nor the fierce self-idolatry of nation-worship, is the goal of human history.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Their history is largely a record of crime, war, disease, and terror, with just sufficient happiness interposed to give them, while it lasts, an…

— C.S. Lewis

“History is the nothing people write about a nothing.”

— William Golding

“Happy people don't make history. Happy people make children, then die.”

— Neil Hilborn

“What history will say about us is of no importance; because we will be gone when the history judges about us.”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

France is, for me, the country of happiness.

— Max von Sydow