Alternative Lifestyles Quotes

“Her husband had pursued an “alternative lifestyle” that was “free of the fetters of capitalism.” The woman herself, when she was in college, had considered the conformist pressures of getting good grades, building a resume, and landing a job in some big corporation to be tedious and distasteful and had thought the life her husband wanted dovetailed with hers. They got married as soon as she graduated, and she got a job right after. She learned quickly that an “alternative lifestyle” meant nothing without a detailed, concrete plan, and living “free of the fetters of capitalism” meant working for places that didn’t pay their workers on time. As she worried about realizing this alternative lifestyle in the real world, she crumbled away under the pressures of working at a company in the non-profit sector that was run not by the normal labor of workers, but through their unrequited sacrifices. Meanwhile, her husband, who was her upperclassman in college but graduated later than she did, fiddled around in search of his ideal “alternative lifestyle” without ever settling down on any particular profession—the result being the twenty-million-won loan he had taken out and used up without her knowledge.”
― Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

“Alternative False Life-Styles

Once saved always saved; Just a sinner saved by grace; Once an addict, always an addict; No sin can separate us from the love of God; God understands sin

All alternatives leading away from our responsibility of tuning away from sin!”
― John M Sheehan

“Alternative lifestyle communities can easily become victim to cults of personality. Calling out problems in a community or running afoul of the wrong popular organizer, even for the right reasons, can lead to a social backlash.”
― Kevin A. Patterson, Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities

“Many times creatively responding to change immediately puts us on the edge of culture and friendships. People who ride the edge are marginalized until others accept the new reality and the new adaptation. Those with diverse points of view who are willing to make changes in their living systems and risk loss of status are crucial pioneers. How else can solution be adapted unless early adopters take the opportunity?”
― Wayne Weiseman, Integrated Forest Gardening: The Complete Guide to Polycultures and Plant Guilds in Permaculture Systems

“Certainly in our world, so driven by aggressive corporate and materialist values, can afford to let people with alternative viewpoints have a place to be alternative.”
― Rick Steves, For the Love of Europe: My Favorite Places, People, and Stories