Quotes About Loyalty

But if they are adopted there is no traitor blood issue

But I'll be there for you as the world falls down

read it aloud to that teetering RASR (Residually Adult-Sane Republican) … and explain that yes, this is how we feel, ever more, each day in the face of soul-destroying, nation-wrecking treason by a madness that – like the 1860s Confederacy – is without any moral foundation, whatsoever. Tell your ostrich Republican friends, they need to choose sides in this potentially lethal phase of our endless Civil War.

Thus, the most complete definition of a commitment is this: falling in love with something and then building a structure of behavior around it for those moments when love falters.

We were destroying any sense of civility and decency the four of us still had. We were no longer brothers and sisters. We were members of a gang.

Trust me. - Silk

Dost thou question my word, Sir Knight? Madorallen returned in an ominously quiet voice. And wilt thou then come down and put thy doubt to the test? Or is it perhaps that thou wouldst prefer to cringe doglike behind thy parapet and yap at thy betters? Oh, that was very good, Barak said admiringly.

Young lady, Silk said urbanely, I think you'd be amazed at how little Polgara's concerned about who you are. Polgara? Ce'Nedra faltered. The Polgara? I thought you said that she was your sister. I lied, Silk confessed. It's a vice a have.

Sparhawk grinned. If Martel finds out that he's drinking again, he'll reach down his throat and pull his heart out. Can you actually do that to a man? You can if your arm's long enough, and if you know what you're looking for.[...]

All I knew was that I would die if he sent me away. He shrugged. You can cut a man's heart out with a shrug, did you know that?

I'd really like to go with you, Agachak. Truly I would...but I just can't. I don't understand. Why not? I'm not allowed to leave home. My mother'd punish me something awful if I did... But you're the king. That doesn't change a thing. I still do what mother says. She tells everybody that I'm the best boy ever when it comes to that. Agachak resisted a powerful urge to change this half-wit into a toad or perhaps a jellyfish.

Who owns a man, Durnik?" the blond young man asked sadly. "The one who rules him, or the one who pays him?

You must learn that that's what friends and family are for – to be imposed upon. One of the Cardinal Rules, if you want to get through life without overexerting yourself, is that, when all else fails, fall back on friends and relations.

Salmissra was alone and unguarded. The palace eunuchs were sworn to protect her, but evidently a eunuch's oath doesn't mean all that much to him if it's going to involve bleeding.

Garion drew in a deep breath. Or, he continued, I can go off by myself and find Torak - wherever he is - and try to kill him. Silk whistled, his eyes widening. He said that I didn't have to go alone, Garion added hopefully. I asked him about that. Thanks, Belgarath said dryly.

That's a strange hobby for a Church Knight. God hired me as a fighting man, Sparhawk, not as a monk. I fight whenever He tells me to, but the rest of my time is my own.

Don't explain it to me, please," Anheg said. "As long as somebody I know and trust understands, that's all that's really important.

He had performed that last service that a man can perform for a friend—he had told the truth about him.

Thou art to be my companion, and it ill-behooves companions to have misapprehensions about each other.

To be a soldier in combat was to fall in love constantly

The moral system of a college fraternity turns out to be classically tribal, i.e., characterized by a deeply felt sense of honor, discretion, and loyalty to one's so-called 'brothers,' coupled with a complete, sociopathic lack of regard for the interests or even humanity of anyone outside that fraternal set.

We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately—the object seemed incidental to this will to give oneself away, utterly. To games or needles, to some other person.

Our attachments are our temple, what we worship, no? What we give ourselves to, what we invest with faith.

Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care.