Alva Myrdal Quotes

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• It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours.…
• I have, despite all disillusionment, never, never allowed myself to feel like giving up. This is my message today; it is not worthy of a…
• The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.
• My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics
• More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament.
• There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through…
• The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be…
• The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim…
• War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.
• We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep…
• First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.
• The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.
• I have always regarded global development as a struggle between the forces of good and evil. Not to be simplified as a struggle between Jesus…
• The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized,…
• War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the…
• The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.
• All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.
• I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.
• The smaller nations can in fact exercise greater influence on disarmament negotiations than they have hitherto done.
• Because war and preparations for war have acquired legitimacy, and because of the tremendous proliferation of arms through production and export, so that they are…

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