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Alva Myrdal

"The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized."

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Akiroq Brost

"You can only be twice someone's age once."

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"Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed ... Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this, he had thought from time to time. Oh well, so it went."

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Akiroq Brost

"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."

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"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"

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Akiroq Brost

"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."

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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

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Akiroq Brost

"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."

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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

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"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

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"I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table."

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Alva Myrdal
"War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy."

War

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Alva Myrdal
"The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion."

Age

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Alva Myrdal
"The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations."

Peace

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Alva Myrdal
"There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media."

Media

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Alva Myrdal
"The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing."

Communication

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Alva Myrdal
"The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized."

Age

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Alva Myrdal
"We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE."

Man

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Alva Myrdal
"First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war."

War

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Alva Myrdal
"All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial."

Learning

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Alva Myrdal
"It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes."

Science

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