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 Sat…

- Alva Myrdal

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

- Alva Myrdal

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

- Alva Myrdal

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 …

- Alva Myrdal

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…

- Alva Myrdal

Because war and preparations for war have acquired legitimacy, and because of the tremendous proliferation of arms through production and export, so …

- Alva Myrdal

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 patter…

- Alva Myrdal

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

- Alva Myrdal

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

- Alva Myrdal