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

~Alva Myrdal

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My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics.

~Alva Myrdal

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Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.

~Alva Myrdal

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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.

~Alva Myrdal

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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.

~Alva Myrdal

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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'.

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

~Alva Myrdal

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First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

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

~Alva Myrdal

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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.

~Alva Myrdal

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Biography

Nationality: Swedish

Type: Diplomat

Born: January 31st, 1902

Died: February 1st, 1986

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