Alternatives Quotations | Page 2

Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.

Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable.

I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information.

Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

While the official productivity data look impressive, alternative measures that are equally reasonable show a much more subdued picture.

I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

A strange alternative * * *Must women have a doctor or a dance?

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

Sublime places repeat in grand terms a lesson that ordinary life typically teaches viciously: that the universe is mightier than we are, that we are frail and temporary and have no alternative but to accept limitations on our will; that we must bow to necessities greater than ourselves.

I became a vegetarian in 1958 and it was very difficult in those days to really maintain that because there weren't many options... alternatives. But, now, it's a growing trend because... the economics are there. See, there's simply enough people demanding it that it's profitable to supply vegetarians with those products.

There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution.

Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.

What is the alternative to understanding the complexity of the world?

Cigars are no safe alternative act.

A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.

18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.

The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Führer principle.

Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.

I know that many people disagree with the way I disciplined my child. I also understand after meeting with a psychologist that there are other alternative ways of disciplining a child that may be more appropriate.

I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.

There is no alternative. A Democrat is a Republican is a big businessman, and we're all consumers instead of citizens. It just manifests in the culture, in the music, in the art. I feel a little panicky about it.

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

The toxic mix of religion and tribalism has become so dangerous as to justify taking seriously the alternative view, that humanism based on science is the effective antidote, the light and the way at last placed before us.

There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war. It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative.

We have the alternative. "Do I want to be on the subway looking at these people, or do I want to be in my phone looking at my people?"

It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream.

Reading keeps me sane. Growing up, it was my scape, my alternative; it provided both rebellion and peace.

I think anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy.

Homeopathy offers a safe, natural alternative that causes no side effects or drug interactions.

You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever...

I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel.

People talk about 'lives of significance'-as if there's an alternative. If you're not leading a life of significance, you're not living.

Alternative models are neither right nor wrong, just more or less useful in allowing us to operate in the world and discover more and better options for solving problems.

In our lives and in our careers, whether we are aware of it or not, we are constantly navigating a path by deciding between our deliberate strategies and the unanticipated alternatives that emerge.

The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died

I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what's the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be?

I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.

Fewer than 40 percent of the alternative therapies are discussed with one's physician, In my personal view, the current status quo which could easily be described as 'Don't ask and don't tell,' needs to be abandoned -- that is not in anyone's best interest.

Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men

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.

Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the past. In this sense, the praxis of prophetic pragmatism is tragic action with revolutionary intent, usually reformist consequences and always visionary outlook.

Humans arose ... as a fortuitous and contingent outcome of thousands of linked events, any one of which could have occurred differently and sent history on an alternative pathway that would not have led to consciousness.

I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the contents of his own head, a set of options and imaginative alternatives. His role is that of a scientist, whether on safari or in his laboratory, faced with an unknown terrain or subject. All he can do is to devise various hypotheses and test them against the facts.

Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.

There will be consequences for this, he thought. You can't alter time and not be affected. But whatever the consequences are, I will bear them, because the alternative is too terrible. -Artemis Fowl, The Lost Colony

In part, slacktivism is what happens when the energy of otherwise dedicated activists is wasted on approaches that are less effective than the alternatives.

An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs as on their own merit.

The only alternative seems to be doing nothing…and doing nothing, I find, rarely accomplishes anything

I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people. If that's true, then it will be good to have alternatives to hedge against that eventuality.

No matter how advanced our economy might be, no matter how sophisticated our equipment becomes, for the foreseeable future we will still depend on fossil fuels.

Changeless society is characterized by the absense of alternatives.

There is always a choice, even if the alternatives don't appear to be equal.

Most modern biologists, having reviewed with satisfaction the downfall of the spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternative belief in special creation, are left with nothing.

Love! Hate! Is there no third?

But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nations economic viability.

That's one of the most exciting things about Michigan's future. We need to, we must capitalize on our alternative-energy vehicles that we can produce right here.

Journalism is the only thinkable alternative to working.

the fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows about personal fashion angst, the Appalachian nation still sings about unemployment.

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

If you grew up in a house where you weren't loved, you didn't know there was an alternative.

I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.

A neighbor is a far better and cheaper alternative to government services.

Improved energy productivity and renewable energy are both available in abundance—and new policies and technologies are rapidly making them more economically competitive with fossil fuels. In combination, these energy options represent the most robust alternative to the current energy system, capable of providing the diverse array of energy services that a modern economy requires. Given the urgency of the climate problem, that is indeed convenient.

The bottom of the oil barrel is now visible.

A garden is a kinetic work of art, not an object but a process, open-ended, biodegradable, nurturant, like all women's artistry. A garden is the best alternative therapy.

A garden is the best alternative therapy.

The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.

The youth have a prodigious talent for inventing progressive ideas and alternative courses of action that elude the jaded, in-the-box minds of worn-down adults.

Our problem today is not how to expropriate the expropriators but, rather, how to arrange matters so that the masses, dispossessed by industrial society in capitalist and socialist systems, can regain property. For this reason alone, the alternative between capitalism and socialism is false-not only because neither exists anywhere in its pure state anyhow, but because we have here twins, each wearing different hats.

I think the Mussolinean institution of a third way alternative to comunism is currently still very relevant.

Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.

It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.

The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries.

If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story.

Biking is a good alternative. Use the city as your gym.

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

TAKE A DEEP BREATH EVERY MORNING; SAY THANK YOU FOR YOUR HEALTH. THE ALTERNATIVE IS UNBELIEVABLY TOUGH.

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.

I've never been into alternative, hipster rap music.

I knew about Heatmiser, and I saw them one time at Pine Street [later changed to La Luna], which was the center of a lot of alternative bands during the 80s. But I didn't really know too much about their music.

Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That seems ass-backwards. I thought I was supposed to be getting wiser. Instead, I just keep getting hit over the head with my relative insignificance in the greater scheme of the universe. Confusing, life. But it beats the hell out of the alternative.

A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative.

The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives.

The most depressing thing is the political slogan: there is no alternative. But there is.

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

Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked

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.

For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when it proves false. Not this course, but any other, requires explanation. If you want to go somewhere quickly, and several alternate routes are equally likely to be open, no one asks why you take the shortest. The simplest theory is to be chosen not because it is the most likely to be true but because it is scientifically the most rewarding among equally likely alternatives. We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.

If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it

Don't fight fearful thoughts. Just match each one with an alternative thought that brings you more peace.

Bad habits fill needs, so find good alternatives for them.

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

Life. Consider the alternative.

I don't get inoculations or take anti-malaria tablets when I go abroad; I take the homeopathic alternative, called 'nosodes', and I'm the only one who never goes down with anything.

[hitrecord.org is my] alternative outlet of where I get to be a little less professional and just freak out a little bit.