Alternative Quotes

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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should… — Ludwig von Mises
The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited, if there is… — Milton Friedman
No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They began to be,… — Hugh Miller
I really believe that the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that… — Jerry Falwell
The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it is a taboo… — Richard Dawkins
Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the laws of quantum… — Freeman Dyson
Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to a majority; but… — Henry David Thoreau
The more I learnt about this cheeky - almost rebellious - company, the more it appealed to me, as it unapologetically pointed to an alternative… — Jonathan Ive
Make a point to continually search for a better way of doing things, even when things are going well, to ensure that a better alternative… — John C. Maxwell
News - communicating news and ideas, I guess - is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they have two papers to read (and)… — Rupert Murdoch
In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march... — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable. — Arthur Keith
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… — George Wald
The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious alternative to chance… — Richard Dawkins
Unlike much of orthodox medicine, alternative approaches to healing typically honor the wisdom and capability of the human body. Their goal is often to support… — John Robbins
We are committed with our lives to building a different model and a different future for humanity, the Earth, and other species. We have envisaged… — Maude Barlow
People are important too, however, and what a terrible impact a total ban on hunting would have on the rural economy, which is still reeling… — Ann Winterton
A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant. — Manfred Eigen
Cigars are no safe alternative act. — Ed Markey
Any demanding high technology tends to develop influential and dedicated constituencies of those who link its commercial success with both the public welfare and their… — Amory Lovins

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