Alternatives Quotes

If we take a Vessel of theirs, we get nothing but a bad Vessel fit only to burn, a few Guns and a few Barbarians who we may hang or enslave if We will, and the Unfeeling Tyrants whose Subjects they are will think will think no more of it than if We had killed so many CatterPillars upon an Apple tree. When they take a Vessel of ours, they not only get a rich prize, but they enslave the Men and if there is among them a Man of any Rank or Note, they demand most exorbitant ransoms for them … congress will never, or at least not for years, take any such resolution, and in the meantime our trade and honor suffers beyond calculation. We ought not to fight them at all unless we determine to fight them forever.

There are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.

Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents. A choice is only possible if there are genuine alternatives.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

The present Administration had no alternative but to accept the war initiated by South Carolina or the Southern Confederacy. The North will sustain the Administration almost to a man, and it ought to sustain it at all hazards.

The rise of what's called Islamic fundamentalism is to a significant extent a result of the collapse of secular nationalist alternatives which were either discredited internally or destroyed, leaving few other options. Something like that may be true of American society.

The most depressing thing is the political slogan: there is no alternative. But there is.

One of the basic lessons of history is that things can be different.

The oppressed have no alternative—for they have no power—but to fight.

Win-win is a belief in the Third Alternative. It's not your way or my way; it's a better way, a higher way.

To remove or not to remove? That is the question.

One always wonders about roads not taken.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

If all else fails, you can always be a pro.

I always say don't make plans, make options.

Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.

You're not making a decision if you come to a fork in the road. There is no 'it' to take. It's one or the other.

Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong . . . . The answer to bad religion is better religion--prophetic rather than partisan, broad and deep instead of narrow, and based on values as opposed to ideology.

As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?

The alternative is not war or doing nothing. Whoever rejects war is not doomed to appeasement.

I say to people who are opposed to the Affordable Care Act, What is the alternative?” I don’t hear any answers.

Everything can always be different!