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Lin Yutang Writer
Loyalty

"What is patriotism but love of the good things we ate in our childhood? I have said elsewhere that the loyalty to Uncle Sam is the loyalty to doughnuts and ham and sweet potatoes and the loyalty to the German Vaterland is the loyalty to Pfannkuchen and Christmas Stollen. As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini... in food, as in death, we feel the essential brotherhood of mankind."

Sweet Appreciation Loyalty
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Milan Kundera Writer
Loyalty

"Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one."

Lasts Virtue Loyalty
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Howard Gardner Psychologist, Educator
Loyalty

"Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted will inevitably differ across cultures and eras. Yet, these differences arise chiefly at the margins. All known societies embrace the virtues of truthfulness, integrity, loyalty, fairness; none explicitly endorse falsehood, dishonesty, disloyalty, gross inequity. (Five Minds for the Future, p136)"

Integrity Loyalty Ethical Principles
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Elbert Hubbard Writer, Publisher
Loyalty

"If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness."

Thinking Men Loyalty
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Aristotle Philosopher
Loyalty

"There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (2) the greatest administrative capacity; (3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form of government."

Government Justice Loyalty
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Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist
Loyalty

"There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul."

Law Spring Loyalty
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Sydney Smith Writer
Loyalty

"People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination"

People Imagination Loyalty
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Margaret Thatcher Politician
Loyalty

"I believe that the royal family are a focus of patriotism, of loyalty, of affection and of esteem. That is a rare combination, and we should value it highly."

Believe Focus Loyalty
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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
Loyalty

"Loyalty is a word which has worked vast harm; for it has been made to trick men into being "loyal" to a thousand iniquities, whereas the true loyalty should have been to themselves - in which case there would have ensured a rebellion, and the throwing off of that deceptive yoke."

Men Should Have Loyalty
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Boris Pasternak Poet, Novelist
Loyalty

"How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it."

Thinking Stronger Loyalty
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Veronica Roth Author
Loyalty

"I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could."

People Life Loyalty
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Samuel Butler Novelist, Poet, Essayist
Loyalty

"Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon."

Winning Army Loyalty
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Timothy B. Tyson Author, Historian
Loyalty

"It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve my loyalty. Defiance seemed the only dignified response to the adult world."

Lying Order Loyalty
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