Quotes About Alternatives

If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.

He called such a culture a technopoly, and he didn't mince words in warning against it. "Technopoly eliminates alternatives to itself in precisely the way Aldous Huxley outlined in Brave New World," he argued in his 1993 book on the topic. "It does not make them illegal. It does not make them immoral. It does not even make them unpopular. It makes them invisible and therefore irrelevant.

A threat is a statement of an intention to do some harm, period. It offers no conditions, no alternatives, no ways out. It does not contain the words if, or else, until, unless. Sentences that do contain those words are not threats; they are intimidations, and there is an important distinction.

market alternatives call out the budget and thus the market category, and product alternatives call out the differentiation.

People may be settled into ways of life which preclude continued happiness, but which are satisfactory and far to be preferred to alternatives.

Our danger is not too few, but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives.

If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.

Sometimes I really need the money, really need to go straight to work. But if I had the absolute choice - money no object, my mortgage paid off - I'd really just work once or twice a year - but wouldn't everybody! - or at least do a different job sometimes.

Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives.

The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.

In that moment I began to see that there are times when there is no best choice. There is only this choice and that choice, and both are terrible.

I love 'Sex and the City,' but it's also wonderful that there's something else other than 'Sex and the City.'

There are a number of much less expensive alternatives to detaining immigrants than locking them up somewhere.

In South America, there is no more room for alternatives to democracy.

considering that alternative outcomes could have taken place, that the world could have been different, is the core of probabilistic thinking.

parties are great for optionality).

I would like the option of having neither.

it depends on how the choices are presented to you.

The idea of Original Sin—of guilt where there is no possibility of innocence, no freedom of choice, no alternatives available—is anti-self-esteem by its very nature. The very notion of guilt without volition or responsibility is an assault on reason as well as on morality.

Mysticism is the function of a mind looking for alternatives to reality.

Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?

We always have choices. Isn't that what Dante teaches us?

There's a whole lot of America that looks at each other and says, 'Well, there's 340 million people living in America. Isn't there somebody other than a Bush or a Clinton who can be president in these modern times?'

Some people will not respond to reason. Others refuse to consider alternatives to their normal pattern of behavior. In such cases, an unexpected breaking of one's own patterns can be an effective tool.