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 Satan, since I do not consider that the process is restricted to our own sphere of culture.
Alva MyrdalThe smaller nations can in fact exercise greater influence on disarmament negotiations than they have hitherto done.
Alva MyrdalThe inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.
Alva MyrdalOur 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 Myrdalthe 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.
Alva Myrdal