Alternatives Quotes - Page 5

The first music I ever got into was the '80s alternative bands that my brother listened to, like The Cure and The Smiths and R.E.M. and Fugazi. I can remember specifically saying The Cure was my favorite band back in second grade.

I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.

Ignorance deprives people of freedom because they do not know what alternatives there are. It is impossible to choose to do what one has never "heard of."

Some say vegetarianism is an alternative diet, but it is the original diet, the plan designed by God.

It's wrong to criticize government without offering a possible alternative.

When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.

Privatisation is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all... it is a mutually profitable business contract between the private company (preferably foreign) and the ruling elite of the Third World

As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief.

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.

[Alternative medicine is defined as] that set of practices that cannot be tested, refuse to be tested or consistently fail tests.

The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternative

If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.

Where there is no alternative there is no problem.

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

Neoliberalism isn't an economic program - it's a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives.

Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him...I refuse to accept that.

A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.

It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.

I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.

Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.

The Green Party is no longer the alternative, the Green Party is the imperative

Determinism is the thesis that is true at every moment that the way things then are determines a unique future, that only one of the alternative futures that may exist relative to a given moment is a physically possible continuation of the state of things at the moment. Or, if you like, we may say that determinism is the thesis that only one continuation of the state of things at a given moment is consistent with the laws of nature.

The truly healthy alternative to that chip is not a fake chip; it’s a carrot.