Selling out Quotes

“Bourgeoisie”

“Academic careerism”

“I didn't sell out, son. I bought in.”

“All paid jobs … absorb and degrade the mind.”

“I sold out long before you ever even heard my name”

“It is a strange desire which men have, to seek power and lose liberty.”

“Más preciosa es la libertad que la dádiva, porque se pierde.”

“What's the threat? We all sell out every day, might as well be on the winning team.”

“But, scarce observ'd, the knowing and the bold
Fall in the gen'ral massacre of gold.”

“Whoever gives his labor for money sells himself and puts himself in the rank of slaves.”

“Wikipedia: Selling out”

“Teenage angst has paid off well
Now I'm bored and old
Self-appointed judges judge
More than they have sold.”

“I was not, thank heaven, in a condition which compelled me to make merchandise of Science for the bettering of my fortune.”

“Truth is, I've always been selling out.  The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.”

“During those years I taught the art of rhetoric. Conquered by the desire for gain, I offered for sale speaking skills with which to conquer others.”

“Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.”

“I wanted that work to carry the most important message ... that a person mustn't sell himself. I made a chocolate bar that can't be bought, using a giant panel of concrete.”

“Ein Mensch, der um anderer willen, ohne dass es seine eigene Leidenschaft, sein eigenes Bedürfnis ist, sich um Geld oder Ehre oder sonst etwas abarbeitet, ist immer ein Tor.”

“We know something about billionaire consumption, but it is hard to measure some of it. Some billionaires are consuming politicians, others consume reporters, and some consume academics.”

“Plato said that virtue has no master [Republic 617e]. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.”