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Swedish Politician Inspirational Quotes (89)

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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.
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.
Alva Myrdal
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No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations
Hjalmar Branting
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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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Without [hope and] confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out intolerance may become tolerant, and hate be changed into love ideas may be quickened, intelligence widened, and men's hearts may be ennobled but from pessimism which can see nothing but gloomy visions nothing is to be expected.
Klas Pontus Arnoldson
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The world has gotten so interwoven.
Hans Blix
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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.
Alva Myrdal
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Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance.
Anna Lindh
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Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.
Anna Lindh
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If two equally qualified persons apply for a job at a workplace with few immigrants, the one called Mohammed should get the job.
Mona Sahlin
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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.
Alva Myrdal
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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.
Alva Myrdal
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At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas.
Hjalmar Branting
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The Swedes must be integrated into the new Sweden , the old Sweden will not return.
Mona Sahlin
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I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates the return of the prodigal son but also creates new sources of friction here and there
Hjalmar Branting
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The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
Hans Blix
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But in the Middle Ages people were convinced there were witches. They looked for them and they certainly found them.
Hans Blix
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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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War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.
Alva Myrdal
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I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.
Hans Blix
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Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.
Hans Blix
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If you're a social democrat, then you think it's cool to pay taxes. For me, tax is the finest expression for what politics really is.
Mona Sahlin
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Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.
Klas Pontus Arnoldson
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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.
Alva Myrdal
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