Queen Christina Of Sweden Quotes

We should never believe anything we have not dared to doubt.

I love the storm and fear the calm.

To obey no one is a greater happiness than to command the whole world.

Which crime has the female sex committed to be sentenced to the harsh necessity which consists of being locked up all life either as a prisoner or a slave? I call the nuns prisoners and the married women slaves.

I say this explicitly, that it is impossible for me to marry. That is the way it is for me. My temper is a mortal enemy to this horrible yoke, which I would not accept, even if I thus would become the ruler of the world.

Francisco Pizarro and Hernán Cortés, in the early sixteenth century, ravaged the Inca and Aztec. Queen Christina of Sweden seized a thousand paintings from Prague in 1648 and paid her generals in artwork. Napoleon stole to endow the Louvre, and Stalin to stock the Hermitage.