Alva Myrdal
Alva Myrdal
Alva Myrdalwas a Swedish sociologist and politician. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. She married Gunnar Myrdal in 1924...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth31 January 1902
CountrySweden
attitude men drawing
The issue of comparative performances can be regarded as settled to-day, both scientifically and practically. Though differences in attitudes between men and women still form a favorite topic of drawing-room conversation ... women's abilities are no longer seriously in doubt. These discussions rather seem to be a kind of rearguard action carried on after the main battle has been decided.
heart ambition men
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 to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.
media mind violence
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.
civilization people target
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.
weapons firsts steps
I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.
communication discovery invention
The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.
victory age nuclear
The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.
philosophy ethics life-is
My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics
jesus struggle evil
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.
strong men roots
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.
war tools rivals
First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.
exercise done facts
The smaller nations can in fact exercise greater influence on disarmament negotiations than they have hitherto done.
war people preparation
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 now available more or less to all and sundry, right down to handguns and stilettos, the cult of violence has by now so permeated relations between people that we are compelled to witness as well an increase in everyday violence.
survival nuclear strive
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.