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The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty ... a man with no loyalty in him, with no sense of love or reverence or devotion due to something outside and above his poor daily life, with its pains and pleasures, profits and losses, is as evil a case as man can be.
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE, Ode to Mazzini
A man is not an orange. You can't eat the fruit and throw the peel away.
ARTHUR MILLER, Death of a Salesman
Our earliest ancestors probably learned that loyalty was a valuable survival tool. In the jungle, the desert, or the open plains, loyalty to your tribe increased your chances of surviving harsh weather and an unreliable supply of food and water.
DIANNE M. DURKIN, The Loyalty Advantage
Loyalty is dead, the experts proclaim, and the statistics seem to bear them out. On average, U.S. corporations now lose half their customers in five years, half their employees in four, and half their investors in less than one. We seem to face a future in which the only business relationships will be opportunistic transactions between virtual strangers.
FREDERICK F. REICHHELD, The Loyalty Effect
The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
I’ll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN, Marx's Goldwyn: The Man Behind the Myth
The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.
CONFUCIUS, The Wisdom of Confucius
Once the rudiments of loyalty are in place, the ambitious have been inclined to work with them to promote their own political advancement, and they have availed themselves of the symbols of loyalty to mobilize popular support for their own personal ends.
MICHAEL WALLER & ANDREW LINKLATER, Political Loyalty and the Nation-State
Loyalty cannot be too liberally insisted upon. Altruism in nature remains an exception. It poses a puzzle, being in prima facie conflict with the survival of the fittest and most selfish.
PETER BIRKS, Privacy and Loyalty
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
Loyalty is an asset, independent and scarce, parceled out among different contestants for power. No ruling government or nonruling group enjoys absolute loyalty -- no contestant can have the whole pie.
YOSSI SHAIN, The Frontier of Loyalty
If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
ELBERT HUBBARD, Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard
Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE, Ode to Mazzini
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