LOYALTY QUOTES V

quotations about loyalty

If I am loyal, my cause must from moment to moment fascinate me, awaken my muscular vigor, stir me with some eagerness for work, even if this be painful work. I cannot be loyal to barren abstractions. I can only be loyal to what my life can interpret in bodily deeds.

JOSIAH ROYCE

The Philosophy of Loyalty


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


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 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


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


That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.

VIRGIL

attributed, Day's Collacon

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