Swedish Journalist Quotes

Maj Sjöwall

Stig Dagerman

Liza Marklund

Jonas Jonasson

Nils Funcke

There'll never be any revolution. Humanity has bartered it for Coca-Cola and cable television.

When you're called up you don't need many personal belongings — not when you love either.

But as long as we think positively, I'm sure a solution will appear.

The ideal is a totally free debate where everyone can write what they want so that all opinions can be let out, even uncomfortable or insulting opinions. The alternative, to hide opinions that exist in a democratic society, is too dangerous. For example, today we see that there is an obvious skepticism against immigration in Europe. These opinions exist whether we want it or not. But these thoughts might flourish even more if we do not discuss them. Today there are a number of questions that are "unmentionable". We should take them back. Not until then can we have a constructive debate.

There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond.

The best thing about being married is having someone who puts out the rubbish.

Yes, think what a lot of nonsense one can figure out with plenty of time. Brooding is the mother of ineffectiveness.

The mind can ask all the questions on the meaning of life. But it cannot answer one of them, for the answers are beyond the mind.

Marianne Fredriksson

The short interregnum of civil society built on the ruins of the Bastille came to its end with the establishment of the Jews as the new Priestly caste. The alternative Church of our society, the Jews, survived in abeyance for hundreds of years. As long as the Christian Church attended to the discourse, the Jews plainly had no chance to compete; but when its power was broken by liberty-seekers, the alternative arrangement came forward.