"The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men."

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Source : Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

Alva Myrdal

#Strong Quotes #Men Quotes #Roots Quotes

“I'm happy wherever I go, whatever I do. I'm happy in Iowa, I'm happy here in California.”
“I grew up in this medical atmosphere, and thought I wanted to be a doctor. I was a hippie, didn't have a lot of goals.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“[T]he Swiss people are the best practitioners of the ideals of non-aggression. The Swiss national government posts are parttime positions. Most decisions are made at the canton (state) level. Swiss per capita income is the highest in the world, showing that non-aggression pays. How did the Swiss come to adopt a relatively non-aggressive constitution in an aggressive world? In the mid-1800s, they imitated our constitution and stuck with it!”
“If she is pleasing to one man, a girl is taken care of.”
“Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this happens to me a lot, actually - the melancholy of the situation becomes more front and center.”

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“Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.”
“Hereâ€™s another change Iâ€™ve noticed: The dark is more than the sun dropping off, more than the moon and the stars. Itâ€™s what you canâ€™t see that you hope you will see, what hasnâ€™t been that might be.”
“In the land of "I know," there is always competitiveness, jealousy, pretence, pride and arrogance. It is an aggressive realm - the realm of the ego. I say refuse citizenship. In the land of "I dont know," the inhabitants move without conflict and are naturally quiet, happy and peaceful. The wise stay here.”

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