I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people. — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing. — Alva Myrdal Copy Share
The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share
Because war and preparations for war have acquired legitimacy, and because of the tremendous proliferation of arms through production and export, so that they… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share
I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy. — Alva Myrdal Copy Share
As a group, housewives to-day suffer more from social isolation and loss of purpose than any other social group, except, perhaps, the old. — Alva Myrdal Copy Share
If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane. — Alva Myrdal Copy Share
Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite,… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share
marriage, home life, and children, ought to be enjoyed by men and women together. Nobody - and least of all the child - is… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share
The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share
Our immediate striving must be aimed at preventing what, in the present situation, is the greatest threat to the very survival of mankind, the… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share
I have always regarded global development as a struggle between the forces of good and evil. Not to be simplified as a struggle between… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share
It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share
First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war. — Alva Myrdal Copy Share
