Loyalty Quotes - Page 34

• ...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it is ours. It may be very natural to have this loyalty to our own species, but let us hear no more from the naturalists about the "sentimentality" of anti-vivisectionists. If loyalty to our own species - preference for man simply because we are men - is not sentiment, then what is?

  C. S. Lewis

  Sacrifice, Men, Animal

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• Star Wars has always struck a chord with people. There are issues of loyalty, of friendship, of good and evil... The theme came from stories and ideas that have been around for thousands of years.

  George Lucas

  Stars, War, Years

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• Every state begins in compulsion; but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right; for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.

  Will Durant

  Order, Society, Citizens

  Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.

  Zig Ziglar

  Character, Profitability, Productivity

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• Loyalty is uncommon, unconditional
  and uncompromising. Every winning
  team has it.

  Dan McCarney

  Team, Winning, Uncommon

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• The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer: that freedom to invent outweighs loyalty to mere happenstance, the accidents of history; and good readers should know how to filter a general applicability from a particular story.

  Tom Shippey

  Echoes, Filters, Stories

  Tom Shippey (2014). “The Road to Middle-earth: Revised and Expanded Edition”, p.304, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Public loyalty results in private leverage.

  Andy Stanley

  Results

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• The true lover realizes that freedom is needed for loyalty to blossom.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Realizing, Needed

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• Joining a band of brothers together, a group with one common interest or mission, whether as a company, a team, or a motorcycle club, requires not only a commitment to loyalty but an understanding of self-preservati on as well.

  Sonny Barger

  Brother, Team, Commitment

  FaceBook post by Sonny Barger from Jan 30, 2015

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• THE KEY TO GENERATING LOYALTY AND RISING ABOVE THE GENERAL NOISE SEEMS TO BE ALL ABOUT CREATING AN AUTHENTIC VOICE.

  Richard Branson

  Keys, Voice, Creating

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• They [the disciples] were testifying to the resurrection, a question of fact, not merely of faith. They were convinced of an event. And their willingness to die for attesting to that event is far more convincing that the willingness of others to die for a mere belief or because of loyalty to a religion or religious leader.

  Dave Hunt

  Religious, Leader, Events

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• All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Leadership, Skills, Priorities

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• After all, there were thousands of so-called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerated. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.

  Barack Obama

  Leather Jackets, Names, White

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.101, Canongate Books

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• Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic.

  John Quincy Adams

  Powerful, Secret, Republic

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• A Jap's a Jap. There is no way to determine their loyalty... This coast is too vulnerable. No Jap should come back to this coast except on a permit from my office.

  John L. DeWitt

  Tyrants, Office, Way

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• Look around you. Your world-hosts are all in mutiny, in confusion, destitution; on the eve of fiery wreck and madness! They will not march farther for you, on the sixpence a day and supply-demand principle; they will not; nor ought they, nor can they. Ye shall reduce them to order, begin reducing them. to order, to just subordination; noble loyalty in return for noble guidance. Their souls are driven nigh mad; let yours be sane and ever saner.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Order, Mad, Confusion

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• The dog becomes the repository of those model human properties that we have cynically ceased to find among humans. Where today can we find the full panoply of William Bennett's Book of Virtues-from Courage and Responsibility to Loyalty and Family Values-but in Lassie and Beethoven and Millie and Checkers and Spot?

  Marjorie Garber

  Dog, Book, Responsibility

  Marjorie Garber (1997). “DOG LOVE”, Touchstone

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• Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends -- honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism -- these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded, then, is a return to these truths.

  Barack Obama

  Honesty, Hard Work, Play

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• We bow our heads in respect for those Soviet women who displayed exceptional courage in the severe time of war. Never before but during the days of the war the grandeur of spirit and the invincible will of our Soviet women, their selfless dedication, loyalty and affection to their Homeland, their boundless persistence in work and their heroism on the front manifested themselves with such strength.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  War, Persistence, Dedication

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• Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men. Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person's qualities but on trust. It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Heart, Men, Risk

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.339, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.

  William Shakespeare

  Doe, Fool, Folly

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1850). “The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakspeare: With Notes, Original and Selected, and Introductory Remarks to Each Play”, p.294

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• Collective unity is not the result of the brotherly love of the faithful for each other. The loyalty of the true believer is to the whole the church, party, nation and not to his fellow true believer. True loyalty between individuals is possible only in a loose and relatively free society .

  Eric Hoffer

  Party, Faithful, Unity

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man

  Margaret Mead

  Laughter, Hate, Grief

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• I fight against the gluttony of time with so many very amusing weapons with gestures and with three attitudes and with charming phrases; with tears and with tinsel, and with sugar-coated pills, and with platitudes slightly regilded. Yes, and I fight him also with little mirrors wherein gleam confusedly the corruptions of lust, and ruddy loyalty, and a bit of moonshine, and the pure diamond of the heart's desire, and the opal cloudings of human compromise: but, above all, I fight that ravening dotard with the strength of my own folly.

  James Branch Cabell

  Attitude, Heart, Fighting

  James Branch Cabell (1948). “The Witch-woman: A Trilogy about Her”, Amereon Limited

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• The general election of 1983 has produced one important result that has passed virtually without comment in the media. It is that, for the first time since 1945, a political party with an openly socialist policy has received the support of over eight and a half million people. This is a remarkable development by any standards and it deserves some analysis ... the 1983 Labour manifesto commanded the loyalty of millions of voters and a democratic socialist bridge-head in public understanding and support can be made.

  Tony Benn

  Party, Eight, Media

  "The Guardian" Newspaper, June 20, 1983.

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