Alva Myrdal Quotes

• 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.

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  Giving Up, Today, Messages

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• 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.

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  Lying, Men, Cooperation

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• 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.

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  Civilization, Age, Process

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• If they [women] are to be integrated more fully into our society than has been the case so far, changes in individual attitudes of both men and women, adjustments in the labor market, and action by public authorities, will all be necessary.

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  Attitude, Men, Our Society

  Alva Myrdal, Viola Klein (2003). “Women's Two Roles: Home and Work”, p.154, Psychology Press

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• Toda la humanidad está aprendiendo ahora que estas armas nucleares sólo pueden servir para destruir, nunca para beneficiar.

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  Learning, Nuclear, Weapons

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

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  Inspirational, Giving Up, Worthy

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• marriage, home life, and children, ought to be enjoyed by men and women together. Nobody - and least of all the child - is served by the present tendency to put these things all on one side as 'Woman's World.

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  Children, Home, Equality

  Alva Myrdal, Viola Klein (2003). “Women's Two Roles: Home and Work”, p.28, Psychology Press

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• 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.

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  Militar, Guerra, Preparación

  Alva Myrdal, Cecilia Åse, Yvonne Hirdman (2002). “"Något kan man väl göra: texter 1932-1982”

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• Como grupo, las amas de casa de hoy en día sufren más el aislamiento social y la pérdida de objetivos que cualquier otro grupo social, excepto, quizás, los ancianos.

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  Loss, Wife, Suffering

  Alva Myrdal, Viola Klein (2003). “Women's Two Roles: Home and Work”, p.191, Psychology Press

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• The smaller nations can in fact exercise greater influence on disarmament negotiations than they have hitherto done.

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  Exercise, Done, Facts

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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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.

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  Heart, Ambition, Men

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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• My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics

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  Philosophy, Ethics, Life Is

  Alva Myrdal, Cecilia Åse, Yvonne Hirdman (2002). “"Något kan man väl göra: texter 1932-1982”

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• 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.

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  War, People, Preparation

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• Hay un factor cultural que promueve la violencia y que hoy en día es sin duda muy eficaz: los medios de comunicación de masas. Y en particular todo lo que entra en nuestras mentes a través de los medios pictóricos.

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  Media, Mind, Violence

  Alva Myrdal, Cecilia Åse, Yvonne Hirdman (2002). “"Något kan man väl göra: texter 1932-1982”

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

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  Order, Done, Causes

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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• La idea errónea de que una victoria puede valer lo que cuesta, se ha convertido en la era nuclear en una ilusión total.

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  Victory, Age, Nuclear

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. Nobel Lecture Disarmament, Technology, And The Growth In Violence by Alva Myrdal 1982 Nobel Peace Prize December 11, 1982.

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• 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.

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  País, Hombres, Años

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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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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  War, Tools, Rivals

  Alva Myrdal, Cecilia Åse, Yvonne Hirdman (2002). “"Något kan man väl göra: texter 1932-1982”

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• 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.

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  Mother, Father, Home

  Alva Myrdal, Viola Klein (2003). “Women's Two Roles: Home and Work”, p.161, Psychology Press

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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.

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  Race, Police, Insane

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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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.

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  Weapons, Firsts, Steps

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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• En términos generales, el mundo se encamina cada vez más devastadoramente hacia el absurdo objetivo del exterminio -o mejor dicho, para ser más exactos- de las ciudades, los campos y las gentes del hemisferio norte que han desarrollado nuestra civilización.

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  Civilization, People, Target

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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• 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.

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  Attitude, Men, Issues

  Alva Myrdal, Viola Klein (2003). “Women's Two Roles: Home and Work”, p.3, Psychology Press

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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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  Balance, Has Beens, Written

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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• 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.

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  Strong, Men, Roots

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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