Loyalty Quotes

An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

dissent

Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the accompanying obligation of having to justify this devotion by our behavior.

love

It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions.

Wasn't that what happened to Lot's Wife?  A loyalty to old things, a fear of the new, a fear to change, to look ahead?

Fidelity, n.  A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

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.

I have never found in a human being loyalty that comparable to a dog's loyalty.

Never place loyalty to institutions and things above loyalty to yourself.

Loyalty is a noble quality, so long as it is not blind and does not exclude the higher loyalty to truth and decency.

I don't want loyalty, I want loyalty.  I want him to kiss my ass in Macy's window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses.  I want his pecker in my pocket.

Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.

A genuine revolution of values means, in the final analysis, that our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional.  Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.

Loyalty is a fine quality but in excess it fills political graveyards.

Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence.

Certain loyalty comes only through dependency.

I entirely appreciate loyalty to one's friends, but loyalty to the cause of justice and honor stands above it.

We have come to a point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit.

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

Loyalty is a verbal switch-blade used by little and big bosses to force us quickly to accept a questionable situation which our intelligence and conscience should reject.

Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world—and never will.

flexible thinking

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

patriotism

If you don't provide loyalty down, you can't expect loyalty up.