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Alva Myrdal (Swedish: [ˌalːva ˈmyːɖɑːl]; née Reimer; 31 January 1902 – 1 February 1986) was a Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician. She was a prominent leader of the disarmament movement. She, along with Alfonso Garcia Robles, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. She married Gunnar Myrdal in 1924.

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

Armament, Authorities, Insane, Police, Race, Realize

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

War, Tools, Rivals, Arms, Rival

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.

Aimed, Immediate, Nuclear, Preventing, Strive, Survival

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.

Age, Civilization, Militarized, Process

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.

Cultural, Enters, Media, Mind, Minds, Violence

the patriarchal family, with its division of functions between a providing and protective father and a home-making, submissive mother, however satisfactory it may have been in its time, has outlived its day. Bread-winning is no longer a monopoly of men, and home-making should no longer be the monopoly of women.

Father, Home, Men, Monopoly, Mother

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.

Becoming, Camps, Citizens, Country, Intern, Persecute

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.

Cooperation, Keep, Lying, Men, Understand

As a group, housewives to-day suffer more from social isolation and loss of purpose than any other social group, except, perhaps, the old.

Isolation, Loss, Perhaps, Purpose, Suffering, Wife

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.

Civilization, People, Target, Towns, Northern

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics

Philosophy, Ethics, Life Is, Life, Personal

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

Communication, Discoveries, Discovery, Invention, Opened, Reciprocal

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.

Giving, Giving Up, Like, Messages, Today

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

Causes, Done, Order, Promote, Terms

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 victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.

Confrontation, Military, Preparation, War

Though it is fairly easy to describe what constitutes a bad home, there is no simple definition of a good one. Conformity with the traditional pattern certainly is no guarantee of the happiest results.

Family, Home, Simple, Constitutes, Easy

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

Firsts, Step, Steps, Systems, Weapons

It's not worthy o human beings to give up.

Beings, Giving Up, Human, Inspirational, Worthy

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.

Heart, Ambition, Men, Lay, Rooted

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.

Everyday, People, Preparation, Right, Sundry, War

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