Hans Koning Quotes

• For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class

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  Kings, War, Class

  Hans Koning (1992). “Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth”, p.118, NYU Press

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• War is always a professional enterprise; despair is left to amateurs.

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  War, Despair, Enterprise

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• Agitation and commitment are dangerous for the peace of humanity, and the only thing which is even more dangerous is their absence.

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  Commitment, Humanity, Agitation

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• Nothing is uncontroversial anymore, and very little is innocent.

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  Life, Littles, Innocent

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• The Queen Elizabeth II provides vast amounts of entertainment for an age that has forgotten how to amuse itself unaided.

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  Queens, Age, Entertainment

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• This is a tragic world we live in.

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  Life, World, Tragic

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