Quotes About Alternative

I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us.

Since the advent of nuclear weapons, it seems clear that there is no longer any alternative to peace, if there is to be a happy and well world.

What is the alternative to peace? A catastrophe for both peoples [Palestine and Israel].

Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.

You are not mine to command. But the choice to kill always means closing the mind to the chance of a living alternative.

And you thought there was only one exit door...

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

In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march.

There are rap groups that have a positive outlook in their art. These groups should be shown as an alternative to gangsta rap.

When banana's don't work, try a cookie.

to the American power elite one of the longest lasting and most essential foreign policy goals has been preventing the rise of any society that might serve as a good example of an alternative to the capitalist model. This was the essence of the Cold War. Cuba and Chile were two examples of several such societies in the socialist camp which the United States did its best to crush.

But sometimes there is no alternative approach. Then, pricing is a matter of placing a value on the solution to a particular customer problem. That value has nothing to do with the cost of building the product.

I think this represents a greater leap of faith than belief in the existence of God. For it is, I repeat, literally worse than magic. If this is the alternative to belief in God, then unbelievers can never accuse believers of irrationality, for what could be more evidently irrational than this?

The rational alternative to Darwin's theory is intelligent uncertainty.

Ordinary Germans" felt utterly powerless, and resigned to feeling so for the foreseeable future. The government would doubtless translate that resignation as passive support, and to some extent they were right. There was certainly no sense that anyone had a practical alternative to offer.

Localisation stands, at best, at the limits of practical possibility, but it has the decisive argument in its favour that there will be no alternative.

The fact that we find it hard to imagine how such an alternative life could be endlessly engaging and interesting is perhaps more a reflection on the limits of our imaginations than on the life itself.

Most of these rituals have been gradually brushed aside as pagan superstition or repackaged as tourist attractions (or both). For the most part, all we're left with as an alternative to our mundane lives are our 'national holidays': frantic periods of over-consumption, crammed in the gaps between work, in which we entertain solemn injunctions that consumption isn't really what matters about life.

HOMEOPATHS. Save money on petrol by filling up at the water pump. Your car will remember the petrol from the previous fill.

This is what the bourgeois political economists have done: they have treated value as a fact of nature, not a social construction arising out of a particular mode of production. What Marx is interested in is a revolutionary transformation of society, and that means an overthrow of the capitalist value-form, the construction of an alternative value-structure, an alternative value-system that does not have the specific character of that achieved under capitalism.

The reports that invariably seek to discredit alternative methods of healing are invariably produced by those funded by and answerable to Big Pharma. They are simply there to destroy the opposition and they are in a real panic now with so many people rejecting the scalpel and the drug and using alternative forms of treatment.

Postmodernism is also simplistic in failing to see its own interpretation of the world (that all metanarratives are evil tools of oppression that must be deconstructed) as an alternative metanarrative.

Jesus came to establish the kingdom of God as a radical alternative to all versions of the kingdom of the world, whether they declare themselves to be "under God" or not.

Religion is the most powerful alternative to God.