quotations about loyalty
Loyalty is a virtue if it is directed at something greater than self-interest or group interest.
THOMAS FREEMAN
McWhinney's Textbook of Family Medicine
I also suspect that loyalty is sometimes an excuse for intellectual indolence. It is so easy to select some group or institution which offers clear championship of at least some element of what we conceive to be our self-interest, and then to draw in its support blank checks upon our instinct for loyalty.
ADLAI STEVENSON
"Some Thoughts on Loyalty", Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Feb. 1953
Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Hudibras
While loyal people often do sacrifice various interests, their time, and sometimes even their lives to serve some person, group, or cause, loyalty is not strictly altruistic. The loyal person's self-interest is tied up with that of the object of loyalty.
ROBERT W. KOLB
Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society
While loyalty to one's group can encourage unethical behavior, the loyal often act unethically mainly for the benefit of their groups.
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
That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.
VIRGIL
attributed, Day's Collacon
Loyalty is among a broad set of moral values that people embrace. Enshrined in national oaths of allegiance, military mottos, and business cultures, loyalty is often cast as a virtue to aspire to and as being closely related to other moral values such as honesty and benevolence. Loyalty promotes good citizenship behavior, prompting people to voice their concerns and help others in their community.
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