43 Quotes by Alva Myrdal

I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

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 and Satan, since I do not consider that the process is restricted to our own sphere of culture.

All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.

If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.

More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament.

It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.

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. And as a "remedy", more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women.

The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization.