Loyalty Quotes - Page 14

• To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath.

  B. F. Skinner

  Citizens, May, Behavior

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• Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Commitment, Religion, Levels

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.12, Macmillan

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• If you want to know what's Real, of love, of life, of loyalty, put it through the greatest test: Time.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Real, Love Life, Want

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• There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

  Marie de France

  Men, Ends, Hidden Things

  Marie de France (2014). “French Medieval Romances from the Lais of Marie de France”, p.205, The Floating Press

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• Sacrifice is a state of mind in which our thoughts turn with longing [toward Heaven, the Ancestors], It is the supreme expression of loyalty, love, and respect.

  Xunzi

  Sacrifice, Expression, Heaven

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• Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Reader

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• Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company.

  Conrad Black

  Personality, Company

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• True virtue would never liken its rewards to points on a loyalty card, not because it is its own reward, but because it is not something we should practice to accrue future benefits.

  Julian Baggini

  Practice, Cards, Benefits

  "Goodies behaving badly" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2010.

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• With a thousand joys I would accept a nonacademic job for which industriousness, accuracy, loyalty, and such are sufficient without specialized knowledge, and which would give a comfortable living and sufficient leisure, in order to sacrifice to my gods [mathematical research]. For example, I hope to get the editting of the census, the birth and death lists in local districts, not as a job, but for my pleasure and satisfaction.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Jobs, Science, Sacrifice

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• Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ -- For My Sake. It is that which makes the iron saint.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Iron, Saint

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call”, p.86, Discovery House

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• Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is the price of his immunity from political pressure and of the security of his tenure.

  Learned Hand

  Believe, Political Opinions, Law

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• You need to look no further than Apple's iPhone to see how fast brilliantly written software presented on a beautifully designed device with a spectacular user interface will throw all the accepted notions about pricing, billing platforms and brand loyalty right out the window.

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

  Iphone, Apples, Needs

  "Hell Freezes Over: Warner Music claims Itunes is Digital Music Done Right" by Bryan Gardiner, www.wired.com. November 14, 2007.

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• [About the demand of the Board of Regents of the University of California that professors sign non-Communist loyalty oaths or lose their jobs within 65 days.] No conceivable damage to the university at the hands of hypothetical Communists among us could possibly have equaled the damage resulting from the unrest, ill-will and suspicion engendered by this series of events.

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  Jobs, Science, California

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• I would not say that George Bush doesn't care about people at all. I think that his loyalties are to the upper class.

  Stephanie Tubbs Jones

  Thinking, Class, People

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• I'm not a fan of endless mystery in storytelling - I like to know where the mythology's going; I like to get there in an exciting, fast-paced way - enough that there's a really clear, aggressive direction to where it's going, to pay off mystery and reward the audiences loyalty.

  Eric Kripke

  Rewards, Way, Fans

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

  Garet Garrett

  Father, Law, Political

  Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”

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• The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.

  Wendell Pierce

  Sports, Memories, Nfl

  "Wendell Pierce Goes to Market". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2012.

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• If anybody doubts my loyalty to my country, I'll punch him in the nose, and I don't care how old he is.

  William Wyler

  Country, Doubt, Noses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• ... the state is not absolute, and loyalty to the state cannot be absolute.

  Petra Kelly

  Government, States, Absolutes

  Petra Karin Kelly (1994). “Thinking green!: essays on environmentalism, feminism, and nonviolence”, Parallax Pr

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• The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.

  Jayne Anne Phillips

  Firsts, Morality, Language

  FaceBook post by Jayne Anne Phillips from Oct 12, 2012

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• Playing sport has become very important today, since it can encourage young people to develop important values such as loyalty, perseverance, friendship, sharing and solidarity.

  Pope John Paul I

  Sports, Perseverance, Important Values

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• We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of nation-building, to do our duty with integrity, commitment and unflinching loyalty to the values enshrined in our Constitution.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Mother, Children, Drama

  "I will be judged by the critical lens of history: Pranab Mukherjee". www.indiablooms.com. July 24, 2017.

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• I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.

  Floyd Abrams

  Causes, Clients, Duty

  "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". "Your Turn - Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. June 15, 2005.

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• And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.

  Lynn Swann

  Team, Player, Cities

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• Passion, friendship, love, loyalty, trust . . . if you found the right person . . . you really could have it all.

  S.C. Stephens

  Passion, Friendship Love, Found

  S.C. Stephens (2013). “Reckless”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

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