Alva Myrdal

Alva Myrdal was a Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician.

She, along with Alfonso Garcia Robles, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. She married Gunnar Myrdal in 1924.

Date of birth:
31st January, 1902
Date of death:
1st February, 1986
"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
Topic(s): Peace
"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."
― Alva Myrdal
Topic(s): Peace
"Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong."
― Alva Myrdal
Topic(s): Peace
"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."
― Alva Myrdal
Topic(s): Age
"It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes."
― Alva Myrdal
Topic(s): Science
"The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing."
― Alva Myrdal
Topic(s): Communication

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