Quotes About Allegiance

Sooner or later, if there isn't a turncoat, the people make one.

Lenin taught us that every party member should be a Chekist, that is, should observe and denounce. . . . If we suffer from anything, it is not denunciations but non-denunciations.

As we study the Evangelists' accounts of Jesus' life and death, we discover that their main goal is to persuade readers of Jesus' supreme importance to all humankind and to win their allegiance to a king infinitely superior to any earthly ruler.

Now no one can be the slave of two masters

Kill them all.  God will know his own.

Faith was the death of reason. Faith relied on blind allegiance, without thought, only an unquestioned belief.

Faith was the death of reason. Faith relied on blind allegiance, without thought, only an unquestioned belief. Irrationality seemed the nature of faith, and to institutionalize faith man created religion, which remained one of the oldest and strongest conspiracies ever formed. Look at what they fought about at Nicaea.

I have always been a patriot, Brandt. In order to be a truly effective soldier, one must believe in one's country, is that not so?

Jerry Seinfeld once remarked that today's athletes churn through the rosters of sports teams so rapidly that a fan can no longer support a group of players. He is reduced to rooting for their team logo and uniforms: "You are standing and cheering and yelling for your clothes to beat the clothes from another city.

Anyone can say that rocks fall down rather than up, but only a person who is truly committed to the brethren has a reason to say that God is three persons but also one person, or that the Democratic Party ran a child sex ring out of a Washington pizzeria.

Sacrifice is the ecstasy of giving the best we have to the One we love most.

Love of one's country recognizes no frontiers... of other countries.

I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.

Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.

If you love Senegal so much, why don't you play for them?

A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions be, My friend must hate the man that injures me.

I used to think that real love involved falling for someone; but now I think it usually involves standing for someone.

Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

Fredo, you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the Family again. Ever.

Who dare to love their country, and be poor.

I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.

Arsenal means every thing to me. I've been here since I was nine and I love the Club.

For love of country, they accepted death.