LOYALTY QUOTES III

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


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

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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


You take sides if you're smart. Offer up your loyalty, 'cause it's all you've got to trade.

CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE

Radiance


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


All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.

JOHN BARTH

The Sot-Weed Factor

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I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.

SAMUEL GOLDWYN

attributed, Goldwyn: The Man Behind the Myth

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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

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You don't earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day.

JEFFREY H. GITOMER

Customer Satisfaction is Worthless


What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

OSCAR WILDE

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Master, go on, and I will follow thee
To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

As You Like It


Justice, without loyalty, is a vicious formalism.

JOSIAH ROYCE

The Philosophy 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 is a 24-hour proposition, 24/7. It's not a part-time job.

JONATHAN MOYO

"Interview: Jonathan Moyo bares it all", Nehanda Radio, February 8, 2016


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


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


I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue.

AGATHA CHRISTIE

Peril at End House

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Sure, loyalty is laudable, but it's equally important to understand when it stands in the way of progress.

MATT TERL

"Unobstructed View: Grunfeld, Wittman Don't Deserve This Much Loyalty", Washington City Paper, February 5, 2016


Loyalty publicly results in leverage privately.

ANDY STANLEY

attributed, The 360 Degree Leader


Loyalty is dead and perished.

RUTEBEUF

La Complainte de Constantinople