Our immediate striving must be aimed at preventing what, in the present situation, is the greatest threat to the very survival of mankind, the nuclear threat.
Alva MyrdalIf only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.
Alva MyrdalThe smaller nations can in fact exercise greater influence on disarmament negotiations than they have hitherto done.
Alva MyrdalIt is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them.
Alva MyrdalBecause 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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