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“Might does not make right, but right demands that those who hold to it should defend it with all their might.”

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Joseph Alexander Leighton (1870-1954) was a British author known for his historical novels and biographies. His works are characterized by deep insight and rich imagination, which have won him a wide readership. more

“If loyalty is, and always has been, perceived as obsolete, why do we continue to praise it? Because loyalty is essential to the most basic things that make life livable. Without loyalty there can be no love. Without loyalty there can be no family. Without loyalty there can be no friendship. Without loyalty there can be no commitment to community or country. And without those things, there can be no society.”

Ifs Has Beens Country Community Essentials Commitment Praise Loyalty Obsolete No Love Basic Things No Commitment

Book:Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue

Source: Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue

“Our modern, rootless times do seem to be a particularly inhospitable environment for loyalty. We come and go so relentlessly that our friendships can't but come and go too. What sort of loyalty is there in the age of Facebook, when friendship is a costless transaction, a business of flip reciprocity.... Friendship held together by nothing more permanent than hyperlinks is hardly the stuff of selfless fidelity.”

Seems Age Together Stuff Environment Modern Loyalty Permanent Selfless Comes And Goes Fidelity Flip Transactions Reciprocity

Author:Eric Felten

“The only true test of loyalty is fidelity in the face of ruin and despair.”

Faces Despair Tests Loyalty Ruins Fidelity

Book:Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue

Source: Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue

Quote by Joseph Alexander Leighton

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