“Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 847
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
La liberté vaut qu’on la paye.
Part II, ch. VIII: Vigo Bay
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870)
“Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 847
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.”
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
Young India (12 March 1931), p. 31 http://books.google.com/books?id=1HZDAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Freedom+is+not+worth+having+if+it+does+not+connote+freedom+to+err%22&pg=PA31#v=onepage <br class="br">1930s <br class="br">Context: Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
“The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.”
Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World
al'Lan Mandragoran
(15 January 1990)
Source: The Eye of the World
Norman Lamont (1942) British politician
Hansard, HC 6Ser vol 191 col 413 (16 May 1991) http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199091/cmhansrd/1991-05-16/Orals-1.html.
“It is blood alone that can pay the price of freedom. Give me blood and I will give you freedom!”
Subhas Chandra Bose (1897–1945) Indian nationalist leader and politician
Speech in Burma (July 1944) as quoted in The Great Speeches of Modern India (2011) by Rudrangshu Mukherjee
“Simplicity is worth buying if we do not have to pay too great a loss of precision for it.”
George Pólya (1887–1985) Hungarian mathematician
Mathematical Methods in Science (1977), p.215
“Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.”
James Frey book A Million Little Pieces
Source: A Million Little Pieces
“No amount of power or amount of money will ever be worth as much as freedom.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Nessuna quantità di potere o di denaro varranno mai quanto la libertà.
Source: prevale.net
“I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Con mi encadenamiento a la tierra pago la libertad de mis ojos.
Voces (1943)