Olof Palme

"Human beings will find a balanced situation when they do good things not because God says it, but because they feel like doing them."

"For us, democracy is a question of human dignity. This includes the political liberties, the right to freely express our views, the right to criticize and to influence opinion. It embraces the right to health and work, to education and social security."

"They build their democratic institutions with pedantic conscientiousness."

"The bourgeoisie seemed to live in the illusion that an effort for peace presupposed an almost unreserved support for the American position. The hallmark of a balanced bourgeois critique seems to be that it should be heard as little as possible. Preferably be almost silent. That it is surrounded by so many reservations that it loses every meaning and that it is guaranteed not to affect any business."

"Apartheid cannot be reformed. It has to be eliminated."