Alternatives Quotes - Page 11

Win-win is a belief in the Third Alternative. It's not your way or my way; it's a better way, a higher way.

I think there are other alternatives there than hitting a child, striking the child.

I don't get my authority from this preexisting paradigm which is quite narrow and only serves a few people. I look elsewhere for alternatives that might be of service to humanity.

It is clear that several countries, in the Balkans for example, need to be considered countries of safe origin. But others like, in my opinion, Eritrea, undoubtedly need to be considered a country of origin with a valid claim to asylum. And with a third group of states, like Nigeria for example, each individual case needs to be evaluated. Then there are also very controversial cases like Afghanistan. In any case, united European action is needed. This argument for Europeanization may sound utopian, but there is no alternative.

My arguments for liberal empire or whatever you want to call it - hegemony, primacy, you name it - are really activated by a sense that the alternatives involve more violence, more repression, more hardship.

There are certain products that it's worth buying organic just because the alternatives have so much pesticide. There's a list of the dirty dozen that you can get off the Web. Strawberries, potatoes. A handful of crops that have very high pesticide residues if you don't buy organic. If you eat that a lot, that's a good place to invest.

Nonviolent Peaceforce ...is building a large-scale professional force of well-trained unarmed peacekeepers ... This nonviolent peacekeeping provides an alternative to which we may say YES when we say NO to war.

This was what happiness felt like - this wondrous, miraculous alternative to dread.

[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.

Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue.

As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.

The Pentagon banned the army from using Chinese-made berets. In a more veiled slap at the Chinese, the Pentagon also banned any alternative form of checkers.

Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong . . . . The answer to bad religion is better religion--prophetic rather than partisan, broad and deep instead of narrow, and based on values as opposed to ideology.

There's not a word that describes us. We’re not alternative, metal or grunge - we’re not any of that. We’re just what we are.

We must create a [economic] crisis in order to ensure that there is no alternative to a smaller government.

More or less Europe - that's the wrong alternative! What we need is less centralism.

I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.

At some point, we all have to decide how we are going to fail: by not going far enough, or by going too far. The only alternative for the most successful (maybe even the most fulfilled) people is the latter.

Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely say ‘Give me death’-the alternative being manifestly impossible under modern conditions.

People are given a false alternative: the choice between an unenlightened belief and an enlightened unbelief. Most intellectuals seem to pay homage to the second variant.

Even though we require flexibility to negotiate our changing circumstances, we are rather built to anxiously turn away from alternatives.

The elegance of staying with a moment, without needing to stop and change all the lighting, made [the alternative] seem lazy and indulgent.

Cigars are no safe alternative act.