“At every stage of practice a price has to be paid for clarity. The price is the loss of an illusion.”
Wake Up To Your Life. (2002) pg. 264. (Topic: Awareness)
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William Barclay (1964) The Gospel of John. Vol. 2, p. 77
“This is the price that must be paid for progress and it is worth it.”
The Rickover Effect (1992)
Context: Everything new endangers something old. A new machine replaces human hands; a new source of power threatens old businesses; a new trade route wipes out the supremacy of old ports and brings prosperity to new ones. This is the price that must be paid for progress and it is worth it.
Book Two, Part I “Yellow City”, Chapter 5 (p. 152)
Vazkor, Son of Vazkor (1978)
“Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price.”
Source: The Bartimaeus Trilogy Boxed Set
statement on the death of Private Errol Noack, first Australian conscript killed in Vietnam, 25 May 1966
As prime minister
Source: The Life and Death of Harold Holt, p. 180.
“The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.”
al'Lan Mandragoran
(15 January 1990)
Source: The Eye of the World
To the Memory of Some I knew Who are Dead and Who Loved Ireland (1917)