Loyalty Quotes - Page 25

• Certainly all "progressive" thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain... Hitler, because in his joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life.

  George Orwell

  Pain, Struggle, Sacrifice

  George Orwell's review of the book "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler in "New English Weekly", March 21, 1940.

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• Loyalty isn't standing by someone when he's right - that's good judgment. Loyalty is standing by someone when he's wrong.

  Susan Estrich

  Judgment, Good Judgment, Standing

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• I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.

  Jack Steinberger

  Years, Berkeley, Oath

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• The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.

  Adam Gopnik

  Past, Desire, Goes On

  "Blows Against the Empire" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. August 20, 2007.

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• The democratic ideal springs from the ideas of liberty, equality, majority rule through free elections, protection of the rights of minorities, and freedom to subscribe to multiple loyalties in matters of religion, economics, and politics rather than to a total loyalty to the state. The spirit of democracy is the idea of importance and worth in the individual, and faith in the kind of world where the individual can achieve as much of his potential as possible.

  Saul Alinsky

  Spring, Rights, Majority Rule

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.24, Vintage

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• I certainly wouldn't compare the rewards of watching one's children grow and mature with that of money piling up at the box office. Both are pleasant, but to varying degrees. As the old saying goes, you can't take an audience home with you. You can't depend on the loyalty of fans, who, after all is said and done, are just faceless people one seldom sees. And few stars have their fans forever. But a child is forever. That bond and relationship is timeless and doesn't depend on your looks, age or popularity at the moment.

  Julie Andrews

  Stars, Children, Home

  Saturday Evening Post, February 1980.

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• When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and countryare as nothing to that.

  Alice James

  Children, Husband, Firsts

  1889 Diary entry, 19 Nov.

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• It is heartbreaking to me that I wasn't told the truth. I'm a very loyal guy, and I expect loyalty in return. And lying to me is not an exhibition of loyalty.

  Chris Christie

  Lying, Guy, Heartbreaking

  Chris Christie's news conference on George Washington Bridge scandal, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2014.

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• Why is it fair game to question conservatives' love or loyalty to children or to their fellow man, but beyond the pale to question liberals' love of country?

  Jonah Goldberg

  Country, Children, Men

  "Patriot Games" by Jonah Goldberg, www.nationalreview.com. April 21, 2004.

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• It is tragic to have to realize that the best I had to give as a soldier, obedience, and loyalty, was exploited for purposes which could not be recognized at the time, and that I did not see that there is a limit set even for a soldier's performance to his duty. That is my fate.

  Wilhelm Keitel

  Fate, Giving, Soldier

  "The Trial of the Germans". Book by Eugene Davidson, p. 341, 1997.

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• At last, Mythic feeling and conscious perception no longer confront each other as antagonists but as allies. Passionate nationalism is no longer directed toward tribal, dynastic or theological loyalties, but toward that primal substance, the racially based nationhood itself. Here is the message which will one day melt away all dross, eliminate all that is base, and bring into being all that is noble.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Feelings, Perception, One Day

  "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, p. 45, 1930.

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• When does loyalty become martyrdom?

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Doe, Martyrdom

  Robert Charles Wilson (2014). “The Chronoliths”, p.240, Macmillan

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• If we are to have peace, we must learn loyalty to a larger group. And before we can learn loyalty, the thing to which we are to be loyal must be created.

  Kenneth Waltz

  Groups, Loyal, Ifs

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.69, Columbia University Press

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• I've come up through the ranks of this parliamentary party and let me tell you the principles that have guided me on that journey since my first election 25 years ago: Loyalty to the party, service to our country, and a determination to always do my best for the people. They are principles that still guide me.

  Brian Cowen

  Country, Determination, Party

  "Loyalty to a Fault Over Molloy Affair Is Costing Cowen Dearly". www.independent.ie. September 26, 2009.

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• The core in the Juche outlook on the revolution is loyalty to the party and the leader. The cause of socialism and communism is started by the leader and is carried out under the guidance of the party and the leader.

  Kim Jong Il

  Party, Leader, Revolution

  "On the Juche Idea". Treatise submitted to the National Seminar on the Juche Idea, March 31, 1982.

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• Church and State should be united in the White Man's religion.
  - Global White Racial Loyalty and Solidarity must be our constant goal.
  - Race is everything. In order to survive and prosper, the White Race must overcome its five main enemies: Judaism, Christianity, Communism, Liberalism and Nationalism.

  Ben Klassen

  Men, Race, White Man

  "The Little White Book". Book by Ben Klassen, 1991.

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• It isn't necessary to be socialists in order to love Pertini. Whatever he says or does, smells of cleanliness, of loyalty and of sincerity.

  Indro Montanelli

  Order, Smell, Doe

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• The freedom of thought and action we Americans enjoy today seems as natural as the air we breathe. But there is a danger we may take this freedom for granted. We must never forget it was bought for us at a great price. The brave and resourceful Americans whose sacrifices gained our Independence and preserved it for more than 200 years against formidable foes have set an example of unflinching loyalty to the ideal of liberty and justice for all.

  Ronald Reagan

  Sacrifice, Justice For All, Air

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• The Devil's methods of opposition are those of alliance and antagonism, and the only serious one is the first. Let us beware of it. Do not let us imagine that we can take into our fellowship and enlist under one banner men who simply affirm truth about Jesus, unless in their own lives there is an absolute loyalty to the Lord Christ. Antagonism is the creation of force for the kingdom of God. Put a man in prison for Christ's sake, and the earthquake will surely follow, and the work will spread.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Jesus, Men, Earthquakes

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• Hey, White, you know where your loyalties are? Right here. The old pinstripes. No! You never wore them... So you have a right to sing the blues.

  Phil Rizzuto

  Yankees, White, Hey

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• Loyalty is a cohesive force that forges individuals into a team.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Team, Nba

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• The market, if it can be kept honest and competitive, does provide very strong incentives for work effort and productive contributions. In their absence, society would thrash about for alternative incentives-some unreliable, like altruism; some perilous like collective loyalty; some intolerable, like coercion or oppression.

  Arthur Melvin Okun

  Wisdom, Strong, Effort

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• A Godly leader ... finds strength by realizing his weakness
  finds authority by being under authority
  finds direction by laying down his plans
  finds vision by seeing the needs of others
  finds credibility by being an example
  finds loyalty by expressing compassion
  finds honor by being faithful
  finds greatness by being a servant

  Roy Lessin

  Godly, Compassion, Greatness

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• The love, support, and respect the members of the theater community have for one another is unparalleled. Say what you want about us wacky drama-types, but one thing that makes our business special is our loyalty, our fierce commitment to one another, and our mutual respect.

  Monica Raymund

  Drama, Commitment, Support

  "Making 'A Better Holiday'" by Monica Raymund, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2011.

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• A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.

  A. O. Scott

  Honesty, Drama, Ambition

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