Alva Myrdal Quotes

Perpetual war for perpetual peace.

If this matter is not handled very carefully, a third world war might start here.

It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

There had to be a hysteria and a fear sent through America in order to get increased war budgets.

Limiting nuclear war is like limiting the mission of a match thrown in a keg of gunpowder.

the world's chief war-monger

Whenever there is talk of peace, there is anger in the military- industrial- political complex.

There have been many examples in the world of people doing crazy things because they want to keep war going.

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

During the cold war, it was easy for the Pentagon to justify its budget, as the Soviets essentially sized our forces for us. We simply counted up their stuff and either bought more of the same or upgraded our technology.

I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

I'm still bothered by the threat of nuclear war.

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

War is just one more big government program.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.

People often ask me how I feel about my invention being used to kill people every day and the AK being a common weapon of ethnic conflicts. I want to make it clear that I created my assault rifle to protect my country. You can blame politicians for its spreading out of control on a global scale.

The principal cause of war is war itself.

From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.