quotations about loyalty
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
EDWARD R. MURROW
attributed, Our Brave New World Compilation
Loyalty cannot be too liberally insisted upon. Altruism in nature remains an exception. It poses a puzzle, being in prima facie conflict with the survival of the fittest and most selfish.
PETER BIRKS
Privacy and Loyalty
To be loyal to our country is the duty of every man; to be loyal to ourselves is the first trust of manhood; but the most essential of all loyalty is to be loyal to Him who created us.
E. P. DAY
Day's Collacon
You take sides if you're smart. Offer up your loyalty, 'cause it's all you've got to trade.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Radiance
My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.
EDWARD ABBEY
Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey
Loyalty is an asset, independent and scarce, parceled out among different contestants for power. No ruling government or nonruling group enjoys absolute loyalty -- no contestant can have the whole pie.
YOSSI SHAIN
The Frontier of Loyalty
Once the rudiments of loyalty are in place, the ambitious have been inclined to work with them to promote their own political advancement, and they have availed themselves of the symbols of loyalty to mobilize popular support for their own personal ends.
MICHAEL WALLER & ANDREW LINKLATER
Political Loyalty and the Nation-State
Loyalty publicly results in leverage privately.
ANDY STANLEY
attributed, The 360 Degree Leader
You don't earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day.
JEFFREY H. GITOMER
Customer Satisfaction is Worthless
I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN
attributed, Goldwyn: The Man Behind the Myth
Justice, without loyalty, is a vicious formalism.
JOSIAH ROYCE
The Philosophy of Loyalty
Loyalty is a measure of who can be counted upon to act in our interest. Disloyalty is an act against us. Loyalty is vital to a herding creature.
MARTIN FRITZ
Our Human Herds: The Philosophy of Dual Morality and a Theory of Moral Evolution
Master, go on, and I will follow thee
To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
As You Like It
I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue.
AGATHA CHRISTIE
Peril at End House
We ... are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tragic loyalty.
G. K. CHESTERTON
All Things Considered
Most ethical principles are pretty unambiguously good. Honesty, fairness, compassion--sure they have their downsides (being "honest to a fault"), but that's more a by-product of something good than it is something evil in and of itself. Then there's loyalty. While ostensibly a positive trait, we are much more apt these days to hear about loyalty in the context of problems--loyalty to a country or religion leading to fanatical acts of chauvinism or violence, loyalty to family or friends leading to nepotism and cronyism in government, or loyalty to co-workers or a company leading to cover-ups of financial chicanery or unethical dealings.
MICHAEL BLANDING
"Is Loyalty A Force For Good Or Evil?", Forbes, January 11, 2016
All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.
JOHN BARTH
The Sot-Weed Factor
Loyalty is dead and perished.
RUTEBEUF
La Complainte de Constantinople
Loyalty means that you ought to be ready to sacrifice every interest that you have, and your life itself, if your country calls upon you to do so, and that is the sort of loyalty which ought to be inculcated into these newcomers, that they are not to be loyal only so long as they are pleased, but that, having once entered into this sacred relationship, they are bound to be loyal whether they are pleased or not; and that loyalty which is merely self-pleasing is only self-indulgence and selfishness. No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
WOODROW WILSON
address at Citizenship Convention in Washington, Jul. 13, 1916
In thy face I see
The map of honor, truth, and loyalty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Henry VI, Part II