“We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out.”

— Julian Huxley

"Philosophic Ants" in The Borzoi Reader (1936) edited by Carl Van Doren, p. 548

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English biologist, philosopher, author 1887–1975

Israel Singer (1942) American Jewish activist

Book "Holocaust Industry", Norman Finkelstein, 2001, page 147. ISBN 1-85984-488-X

“I don’t know how to get the money but if [the radar] is overpriced, definitely we deserve to be paid … They cannot take money from a poor country.”

Jakaya Kikwete (1950) Tanzanian politician and president

Regarding the purchase of the inflated £28m radar from BAE Systems.
Interviews, Interview with Financial Times, 2007-10-04 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d8a07e28-72a3-11dc-b7ff-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check1/

“We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time.”

David Dinkins (1927) former mayor of New York City

On The Fiscal Crisis Of The 1970s. Quoted in an interview by PBS http://www.pbs.org/wnet/newyork/series/interview/dinkins.html

“But the Red Man denied that time, though it must always be paid for, could always be paid for in money.”

Avram Davidson book The Phoenix and the Mirror

Source: The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969), Chapter 9

“Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things.”

Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist

It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased; and its value, to those who possess it, and who want to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchase or command.
Source: The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book I, Chapter V, p. 38.