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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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Alva Myrdal
Age: 84 †
Born: 1902
Born: January 31
Died: 1986
Died: February 1
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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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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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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.
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The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.
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War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.
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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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First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.
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All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.
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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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