As incisively pointed out in the documentary Food Inc. ," an overwhelmingly large percentage of "new," healthy," and "organic" alternative food products are actually owned by the same parent companies that scared us into the organic aisle in the first place. "They got you comin' and goin'" has never been truer.
If youve got an industry where youve got massive investment, it doesnt matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.
A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.
I think anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy.
What is the alternative to peace? A catastrophe for both peoples [Palestine and Israel].
More or less Europe - that's the wrong alternative! What we need is less centralism.
The Democrats right now are living in an alternative universe.
It hit me very early on that something was terribly wrong, that I would see silos full of food and supermarkets full of food, and kids starving. . . . In Fair Trade, we see ourselves as this infinitesimal part of the world economy. But somebody's got to come up with an alternative model that says children eating is No. 1.
I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.
We should never allow ourselves to be bullied by an either-or. There is often the possibility of something better than either of these two alternatives.
The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died
Our theories are wedged and controlled as nothing else is. Yet sometimes alternative theoretic formulas are equally compatible with all the truths we know, and then we choose between them for subjective reasons. We choose the kind of theory to which we are already partial: we follow 'elegenace' or 'economy'
With regard to the alternatives, we already have them. The cellular and genetic lines of research in humans are the most promising. AIDS is caused by a virus, so it makes sense to study the virus, not chimpanzees. We have learned virtually nothing about AIDS from the chimpanzee. Every major advance in AIDS research. . . has come from human studies.
Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives.
I don't get my authority from this preexisting paradigm which is quite narrow and only serves a few people. I look elsewhere for alternatives that might be of service to humanity.
I think capitalism will survive, because no attractive alternatives exist now
It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.
The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices, to part with ideological obsessions, to entertain new ideas or to improve new plans.
I myself have invested in Uber and Hailo, I think they offer great alternatives to disrupt markets that have remained unchanged for many years.
If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.