First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.
Alva MyrdalThe inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.
Alva MyrdalThe issue of comparative performances can be regarded as settled to-day, both scientifically and practically. Though differences in attitudes between men and women still form a favorite topic of drawing-room conversation ... women's abilities are no longer seriously in doubt. These discussions rather seem to be a kind of rearguard action carried on after the main battle has been decided.
Alva MyrdalThe 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.
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