Alternative Quotes

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Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get… — Kristin Hersh
I never imagined that the Free Software Movement would spawn a watered-down alternative, the Open Source Movement, which would become so well-known that people would… — Richard Stallman
The Warrior Diet is the only diet today that challenges all common dietary concepts and offers a real alternativeâ€”guidelines that are not based on superficial… — Ori Hofmekler
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… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
[I]t must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because he is afraid… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less. — Ronald Reagan
Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings. — Ludwig von Mises
One of the most common words in the invalidating, self-blaming stories we believe about ourselves or our situations is the word "should." The psychologist Albert… — William Hudson O'Hanlon
For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity, and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice of the latter,… — David Bentley Hart
We have to stress our conservative credentials and emphasize that we are the natural, national alternative to the Liberals. Clearly the Alliance has shown it… — Peter MacKay
As long as you are free, you are free to select and choose alternatives, provided that you are willing to accept the responsibility for being… — Leo Buscaglia
I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding… — Walker Percy
Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him. — Timothy Keller
Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. — Allan Bloom
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he… — Margaret Mead
The resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative to the stifling, settling dust of death and opens the way to new life. — Billy Graham
All any child needs is the protection of loving parents and an alternative source of information. — Robert Breault
Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness… — Alfred North Whitehead

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