Alva Myrdal Quotes
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 PEACE.
Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.
All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.
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, but also being brutalized.
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 human being to give up.
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 pictorial media.
The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.
The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.
As a group, housewives to-day suffer more from social isolation and loss of purpose than any other social group, except, perhaps, the old.
If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.
The smaller nations can in fact exercise greater influence on disarmament negotiations than they have hitherto done.
First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.
A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and "deterrence".
Our immediate striving must be aimed at preventing what, in the present situation, is the greatest threat to the very survival of mankind, the nuclear threat.
The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong. Nor can it pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.
I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.
It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them.
