Quotes About Loyalty

Turiel's account of moral development differed in many ways from Kohlberg's, but the political implications were similar: morality is about treating individuals well. It's about harm and fairness (not loyalty, respect, duty, piety, patriotism, or tradition).

A Durkheimian society would value self-control over self-expression, duty over rights, and loyalty to one's groups over concerns for out-groups.

I showed that a Durkheimian society cannot be supported by the Care and Fairness foundations alone.18 You have to build on the Loyalty, Authority, and Sanctity foundations as well.

Las personas, al fin y al cabo, se unen a bandos políticos con los que comparten narrativas morales, y una vez que han aceptado una narrativa particular, se ciegan a otros mundos morales alternativos.

We all recognize this portrait of boyhood. The male mind appears to be innately tribal—that is, structured in advance of experience so that boys and men enjoy doing the sorts of things that lead to group cohesion and success in conflicts between groups (including warfare).20 The virtue of loyalty matters a great deal to both sexes, though the objects of loyalty tend to be teams and coalitions for boys, in contrast to two-person relationships for girls.21

It may sound depressing to think that our righteous minds are basically tribal minds, but consider the alternative. Our tribal minds make it easy to divide us

Friendly, yes. Friend, never.

ham-and-eggs breakfast, the chicken's involved but the pig's committed.

To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)

As I get older I find that the friendships that are the most certain, ultimately, are the ones where you and the other person have made substantial amounts of money for one another.

He that would keep a secret must keep it secret that he hath a secret to keep.

I have always been careful of people who say they are behind me because that's where you need to be if you are going to stab them in the back.

Nix still held Benny's hand, and her grip tightened to an almost crushing force, grinding his hand bones together. It hurt, but Benny would rather have cut that hand off than take it back at that moment. If it would help Nix through this, he'd give her a pair of pliers and a vise so she could do a proper job.

I knelt down and hugged the furry monster for a while. If it was too tight, Ghost didn't seem to mind. He wagged his tail and whined a little, sensing the hurt that I felt. Dogs are truly the best of companions. You don't need to explain. They know as much as they need to know, and they are loyal no matter what sins you've committed.

But most days he was able to tough it out. Yeah, she was a mess, but she was his mess, and he would love her, and he would deal with her shit because he loved her. No matter what, he loved her. Still, loving the girl was hard.

He's a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch. ~ FDR

H)ope was like a backstabbing friend. You could trust it sometimes, and then it would turn and drive its blade deep.

You, however, are a psycho bitch who shot my dog.

There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.

Norm protesting his innocence and grassing Dave up himself. Who was his dad going to believe? Him or his stupid little brother? No, his dad had obviously made his mind up and nothing was going to change it. Norm was guilty. Same as flipping always.

Norm sighed and read the post for a third time. A whole bunch of different emotions were tumbling round his stomach, like clothes in a washing machine. It was hardly surprising. He and Mikey had been best friends forever. Well, not actually forever obviously, but a long time anyway. Since they were

Amateurs and single-issue activists have their uses, but without hacks the machine fails, which is why it puts such a premium on people who pay their dues and work their way up the ranks.

Instinctively, machine culture is skeptical of or hostile to freelancers and insurgents, though it may pay them lip service, and it is most friendly to loyalists and repeat players—the people who have skin in the game and will most reliably respond to incentives, people otherwise known as hacks.

A consumer-driven, advertising-dominated culture militates daily against ongoing attachments. It is constantly inviting us to switch to a different brand, try something new, go for a better deal elsewhere. It should not come as a surprise that this begins to affect human relationships as well. A society saturated by market values would be one in which relationships were temporary, loyalties provisional and commitments easily discarded.