quotations about loyalty
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
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
People who work for major corporations have to work tirelessly to loyally advance the interests of the corporations; servants of pop stars sign confidentiality agreements based on loyalty. Political parties, and some administrations, demand absolute personal loyalty, sometimes to the detriment of other qualities. so the first point is that loyalty isn't particularly military; it's touted as a virtue in any sub-world where we need people to act at the behest of other people.
BRUCE EDWARD FLEMING
Bridging the Military-civilian Divide
Surveys vary but it is common for them to conclude that more than 50% of married people admit to being disloyal to their spouses. In our times, even the pretense of life-long loyalty is fading.
MARTIN FRITZ
Our Human Herds: The Philosophy of Dual Morality and a Theory of Moral Evolution
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 often drives corruption. Corporate scandals, political machinations, and sports cheating highlight how loyalty's pernicious nature manifests in collusion, conspiracy, cronyism, nepotism, and other forms of cheating. Yet loyalty is also touted as an ethical principle that guides behavior.
JOHN ANGUS D. HILDRETH, FRANCESCA GINO & MAX BAXERMAN
"Blind Loyalty?: How Group Loyalty Makes Us See Evil or Engage in It", Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
HANNAH ARENDT
The Origins of Totalitarianism
It bothers me that loyalty is most easily built up around ideas which may be simply expressed, particularly if they can be reduced to slogans and to catchwords. As the process of government becomes necessarily more complex, reflecting the increasing complexity of social organization, there is a developing problem of stimulating loyalty to something not easily understood by those whose loyalty is essential.
ADLAI STEVENSON
"Some Thoughts on Loyalty", Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Feb. 1953
There are no shortcuts or growth hacks or magic incense you can burn that will convert masses of people into raving evangelists for a brand. Even a great product or service isn't enough. Loyalty isn't like it used to be. We judge brands on different criteria than they did back in the day because we live in a different economy, and we're exposed to so much more information and competition for our dollars. There's a lot out there on which we can evaluate a brand, and our attention spans are fleeting. Our loyalty can be won in a heartbeat. It can also be lost just as quickly.
BRANDON CARTER
"The Secret Weapon in Customer Loyalty", Business 2 Community, February 3, 2016
True loyalty consists not in bowing the knee to earthly greatness, or in heroic deeds to "gild the kingly knave, or garnish out the fool," but in noble, generous acts of honest purpose, where truth, honor, and virtue, and a nation's welfare, are dearer than life.
JAMES ELLIS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Loyalty to loyalty, that cause of causes upon which I have so much insisted ... is indeed just now in far too many ways a lost cause amongst men. But that is the fault of the men, not of the cause. Let us rejoice that we can serve a cause of which the world, as it is, is not yet worthy.
JOSIAH ROYCE
The Philosophy of Loyalty
Is loyalty still a commendable quality when it is misdirected?
CASSANDRA CLARE
Clockwork Princess
If you're able to make that customer happy and build a relationship, loyalty is often right around the corner.
CHRIS KRAMER
"Using Affiliate Programs to Improve Customer Loyalty", 1to1 Media, January 22, 2016
Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; but it may be mischievous for those whom his cause assails.
JOSIAH ROYCE
The Philosophy of Loyalty
Loyalty to loyalty is not a vague ideal. The spirit of loyalty is practical, is simple, is teachable, and is for all normal men. And in order to train loyalty to loyalty in a great mass of people, what is most of all needed is to help them to be less estranged than they are from their own social order.
JOSIAH ROYCE
The Philosophy of Loyalty
For a retailer, loyalty is a tool to lock in customers' dollars, time and preferences. It secures the value of that business, which is critical when businesses change hands. For people, that same loyalty is a heartfelt experience. It's a promise earned over time: If you treat me well, then I'll gladly give you my time, passion and generosity. It's a barter, yes, but one sealed with emotional currency.
ANGEL ABCEDE
"Opinion: A Question of Loyalty in a Digital Age", CSP Magazine, January 2016
If I am loyal, my cause must from moment to moment fascinate me, awaken my muscular vigor, stir me with some eagerness for work, even if this be painful work. I cannot be loyal to barren abstractions. I can only be loyal to what my life can interpret in bodily deeds.
JOSIAH ROYCE
The Philosophy of Loyalty
Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.
NEIL KINNOCK
"The graveyard of excess political loyalty", Trib Live, January 30, 2016
Loyalty is sometimes so resplendent as to make a man walk through life amid glory and acclamation; but it burns very dimly and low when carried into "the valley of the shadow of death."
W. MOUNTFORD
attributed, Day's Collacon
Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.
NEIL GAIMAN
Good Omens