Quotes by Swedish/Sweden authors (page 4)

"Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?"

Greta Garbo, Actress

"If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is"

Greta Garbo, Actress

"I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live"

Greta Garbo, Actress

"I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong"

Greta Garbo, Actress

"I want to be alone"

Greta Garbo, Actress

"I smoke all the time, one after the other"

Greta Garbo, Actress

"I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures"

Greta Garbo, Actress

"Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game"

Greta Garbo, Actress

"Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening"

Greta Garbo, Actress

"War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"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"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"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"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

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

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"I have always regarded global development as a struggle between the forces of good and evil. Not to be simplified as a struggle between Jesus and Satan, since I do not consider that the process is restricted to our own sphere of culture"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"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"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

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

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"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"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"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"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

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

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"The 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"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"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"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"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"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

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

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"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""

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted?"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"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"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"I dream, therefore I exist"

August Strindberg, Dramatist

"We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home"

Ingvar Kamprad, Businessman

"If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees"

Ingvar Kamprad, Businessman

"There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection"

Agnetha Faltskog, Musician

"When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!"

Agnetha Faltskog, Musician

"With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense"

Niklas Zennstrom, Scientist

"We also have a conference call feature where up to five people can talk on one Skype call"

Niklas Zennstrom, Scientist

"It is very similar to companies like Google and other internet companies. When you go and search on Google you don't pay for that. But sometimes you click on an advert and Google makes money on that"

Niklas Zennstrom, Scientist

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