#alternatives

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

#aggressive #alternatives #conflict #creative #passive

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#choice #choose #create #freedom #oneself

There remains, however, the hope, at least in Russia, that, as sometimes happens in history, the memory of lost alternatives will one day inspire efforts to regain them. ↗

— Stephen Cohen

#day #efforts #happens #history #hope

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive. ↗

— Ann Oakley

#alternatives #career #clearly #expensive #insisting

I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#favor #governmental #i #preferences #still

The same products, services or technologies can fail or succeed depending on the business model you choose. Exploring the possibilities is critical to finding a successful business model. Settling on first ideas risks the possibility of missing potential that can only be discovered by prototyping and testing different alternatives. ↗

— Alexander Osterwalder

#business #business model #choose #critical #depending

Acting is a great way to make a living, especially when I consider what my alternatives were and probably still are. I mean, you are only making movies. It is a lot less pressure than being a surgeon; although it seemed like the only other thing that I was qualified for was manual labour. ↗

— James Spader

#alternatives #although #being #consider #especially

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#alternatives #avoid #being #cigarettes #interesting

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#alternatives #always #between #bring #characteristic

I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience... War is not inevitable, however persistent it is, however long a history it has in human affairs. It does not come out of some instinctive human need. It is manufactured by political leaders, who then must make a tremendous effort--by enticement, by propaganda, by coercion--to mobilize a normally reluctant population to go to war. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#creativity #ingenuity #peace #political-propaganda #war