Alva Myrdal
Alva Myrdal
Alva Myrdalwas a Swedish sociologist and politician. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. She married Gunnar Myrdal in 1924...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth31 January 1902
CountrySweden
family home simple
Though it is fairly easy to describe what constitutes a bad home, there is no simple definition of a good one. Conformity with the traditional pattern certainly is no guarantee of the happiest results.
children home equality
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.
race police insane
If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.
country government people
It 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.
balance written deterrence
A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and "deterrence".
country citizens becoming
Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.
inspirational giving-up worthy
It's not worthy o human beings to give up.
attitude men our-society
If they [women] are to be integrated more fully into our society than has been the case so far, changes in individual attitudes of both men and women, adjustments in the labor market, and action by public authorities, will all be necessary.
loss wife suffering
As a group, housewives to-day suffer more from social isolation and loss of purpose than any other social group, except, perhaps, the old.
order done causes
More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament.
mother father home
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.
war preparation kind
War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.
country men years
It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a "remedy", more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women.
giving-up today messages
I have, despite all disillusionment, never, never allowed myself to feel like giving up. This is my message today; it is not worthy of a human being to give up.