If you follow a certain road for some time, it takes an enormous willpower to leave, although you might recognize that the road was not good. But in my case I believed and was convinced that I was serving and helping the people until the last. However, it is a terrible fate that has befallen me. If I had remained with my writing and my music I would be working now and not a criminal in the Nuremburg prison.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Funk admits leaving the path required willpower but claims he believed he was serving people until the end.
- In plain terms
- It is hard to quit a bad path when you think you are doing good.
- What can you take from it?
- Conviction can keep people in harmful systems longer than logic would suggest.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- When do you walk away from a belief?
- What stops people from changing paths?
Another view
Believing in a cause does not justify the harm it causes.
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