212 Quotes About Alternatives

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.

There's no real alternative to what there is.

At the next election he'll offer the British public an alternative that provides weight and substance and seriousness in a political debate that is, frankly, increasingly obsessed with modishness and flim-flam.

The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.

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.

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

Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

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