People sell their soul in such small quantities - a seemingly trivial compromise here, a rationalization of a minor evil there - that they don't realize what they're doing until it is too late.
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Poverty has a way of taking the edge off principles. Hunger can blunt them altogether.
If you stay true to your principles, you have confidence, conviction, purpose, values - in other words, you have a future.
The immediate result of abandoned idealism is an embittered and drained man, whether he realizes it or not, whether he likes it or not. He is capable of acting in his own interest, but only to the extent that those interests coincide with those of the lowest animals.
Doesn't everyone sell his soul? I tell you, sir: the devil does not exist, there is no devil, yet I sold him my soul. That is what I am afraid of. To whom did I sell it? That is what I am afraid of, my dear sir: we sell our souls, only there is no buyer.
Never dare to sell your soul for money, because no amount of wealth would buy you an air conditioner in hell.