Quotes About Loyalty

Well, and what then? It makes no difference to me. Whether it's for the Republic or something else, I don't care! What I want, monsieur, is to know my government. I saw Charles X. and adhered to him, monsieur; I saw Louis-Philippe and adhered to him, monsieur; I saw Napoleon and adhered to him; but I have never seen the Republic.

la mejor manera de cautivar a tu jefe es hacerlo quedar bien.

Men who have embraced one idea can live only by and for that idea. Beyond it, they have nothing but their memories.

I dislike persons who change their basic ideas, and I dislike them when they change them for good reasons quite as much as when they change them for bad ones. A convert to a good idea is simply a man who confesses that he was formerly an ass—and is probably one still. When such a man favors me with a certificate that my eloquence has shaken him I feel about him precisely as I'd feel if he told me that he had started (or stopped) beating his wife on my recommendation.

Todo homem prudente, ao lembrar-se de que a vida é curta, deveria dispensar uma hora ou duas, de vez em quando, para um exame crítico de suas amizades. Deve pesá-las, repensá-las, testar se ainda contêm algum metal. Algumas poderão sobreviver, talvez com mudanças radicais em seus termos. Mas a maioria será varrida de seus minutos e ele tentará esquecê-las, assim como tenta esquecer seus frios e pegajosos amores do ano retrasado.

My eldest cat, "Nigger-Man," was seven years old and had come with me from my home in Bolton, Massachusetts;

The dog is a peasant and the cat is a gentleman.

Habia mas de Cristo en esta devota mujer de lo que se pensaria de cualquier ser humano, y ante semejante amor y lealtad no podia hacer nada

You gotta dance with the one that brung you!

The questions had become: What can we forgive in others? How far do they have to go before we lose faith in them?

Praise someone ones and they are yours forever.

NIkad se nisam zamajavao nacelima vernosti ili okovima tradicionalnog. Cestitost je patolosko nasilje a dobrota prepreka.

Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.

The outstanding negative quality of the totalitarian elite is that it never stops to think about the world as it really is and never compares the lies with reality. Its most cherished virtue, correspondingly, is loyalty to the Leader, who, like a talisman, assures the ultimate victory of lie and fiction over truth and reality.

For the oath taken by the members of the S.S. differed from the military oath sworn by the soldiers in that it bound them only to Hitler, not to Germany.

The fact that the most perfect education in Marxism and Leninism was no guide whatsoever for political behavior—that, on the contrary, one could follow the party line only if one repeated each morning what Stalin had announced the night before—naturally resulted in the same state of mind, the same concentrated obedience, undivided by any attempt to understand what one was doing, that Himmler's ingenious watchword for his SS-men expressed: My honor is my loyalty.

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

Schuld door associatie' is een eenvoudige, maar vernuftige kunstgreep. Het gevolg ervan is dat, zodra iemand aangeklaagd wordt, zijn vroegere vrienden onmiddellijk zijn bitterste vijanden worden.; om hun eigen vel te redden, geven ze vrijwillig informatie en komen ze plots met aantijgingen op de proppen, om de niet bestaande bewijslast tegen de betrokkene te verzwaren; alleen op die manier kunnen ze hun eigen betrouwbaarheid bewijzen.

do not know if he means to use that sword to help us or to prod us into the hands of our enemies. The Scotsman could well be one of those DeVeau hirelings." Guy shook

Then she looked at the Shepherd and suddenly knew she could not doubt him, could not possibly turn back from following him; that if she were unfit and unable to love anyone else in the world, yet in her trembling, miserable little heart, she did love him. Even if he asked the impossible, she could not refuse.

You're a fine one for tramping around," the bandit girl said to Kai. "I'd like to know – do you really deserve to have someone run to the end of the world just for your sake?

Nobody rots with me.

Wesel devoted these months to assembling a Satan's brood of dedicated killers and systematically training them to a supreme pitch of efficiency. … The murderous intensity common to all its members could only have been generated by the interaction of several factors, among them a power-crazed and inflexible determination to destroy at the bidding of a higher authority. ? Hans Hellmut Kirst

But if Frank had wanted Pavel dead, he would have had Aaron do it. Pavel had been murdered between midnight and one. Aaron was dead by midnight. Myron mulled this over a bit and decided that Aaron's being dead made it extremely unlikely he was the killer.