How we cite our quotes: (Act.Line)
Quote #7
It is not the sale of my soul that troubles me: I have sold it too often to care about that. I have sold it for a professorship. I have sold it for an income. I have sold it to escape being imprisoned for refusing to pay taxes for hangmen's ropes and unjust wars and things that I abhor. What is all human conduct but the daily and hourly sale of our souls for trifles? What I am now selling it for is neither money nor position nor comfort, but for reality and for power. (3.403)
In addition to wanting to respect "reality," Dolly is open about the fact that he now embraces the opportunity to have a bit more power (it doesn't seem like he felt like he had much in the past). Even though he calls it selling his soul, he feels like he's already done that plenty of times before—and, it seems, got less for it.
Quote #8
I think all power is spiritual: these cannons will not go off by themselves. I have tried to make spiritual power by teaching Greek. But the world can never be really touched by a dead language and a dead civilization. The people must have power; and the people cannot have Greek. Now the power that is made here can be wielded by all men. (3.407)
Dolly continues musing about power…Now he's saying that it's not weapons that make power, but the spiritual might behind them (this is a bit different from what he was saying before, when he suggested that the weapons had more power than the man producing them).
Quote #9
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes. This power which only tears men's bodies to pieces has never been so horribly abused as the intellectual power, the imaginative power, the poetic, religious power that can enslave men's souls. As a teacher of Greek I gave the intellectual man weapons against the common man. I now want to give the common man weapons against the intellectual man. I love the common people. I want to arm them against the lawyers, the doctors, the priests, the literary men, the professors, the artists, and the politicians, who, once in authority, are more disastrous and tyrannical than all the fools, rascals, and impostors. I want a power simple enough for common men to use, yet strong enough to force the intellectual oligarchy to use its genius for the general good or else perish. (3.408-409)
Now Dolly has come over to the view that resisting violence and arms is kind of bougie; in his opinion, embracing arms production will not only give him power, but actually make power more democratic overall, giving the good the opportunity to fight back against the bad. Um…yeah, sure…whatever you say Dolly.