Famous quotes containing the words option, strike and/or price:
“A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.”
—Simone Weil (19091943)
“In anothers sentences the thought, though it may be immortal, is as it were embalmed, and does not strike you, but here it is so freshly living, even the body of it not having passed through the ordeal of death, that it stirs in the very extremities, and the smallest particles and pronouns are all alive with it. It is not simply dictionary it, yours or mine, but IT.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.”
—George Orwell (19031950)
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