Best Allegiance Thoughts
235 Allegiance quotes by 199 unique authors
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Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism…
— Jesse Ventura
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My position is that it isn't government's job to mandate patriotism. To me, mandating a pledge of allegiance to a government is something Saddam Hussein…
— Jesse Ventura
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As it is my good fortune to be American, I live in the only country that as a matter of policy is pro-Israel regardless of…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets, there…
— C.D. Wright
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Muhammad brought the promise that anyone could find fulfillment and everlasting life through allegiance to the one true God. The Buddah held out hope that…
— John Green
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With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat…
— Jay Leno
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I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.
— Voltairine de Cleyre
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Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person who harbors them…
— Amin Maalouf
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For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is also the way…
— Amin Maalouf
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I claim you as my life mate. I belong to you. I offer my life for you. I give to you my protection, my allegiance,…
— Christine Feehan
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It comes as a great shock…to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance…has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a…
— James A. Baldwin
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Today the logic goes something like this: 'Calling a ruler Son of God is out of style. No one really does that nowadays. We can…
— Shane Claiborne
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It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil.
— Dan Simmons
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All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its…
— Henry David Thoreau
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A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.
— Wendell Berry
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I haven't any allegiance, any responsibilities, any hatreds, any worries, any prejudices, any passion. I'm neither for nor against. I'm a neutral.
— Henry Miller
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[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.
— Tim O'Brien
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Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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...evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual reality of the…
— Michael Shermer
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The obligation d'âme meant that his only allegiance was to Felix, making them a separate kingdom of two, with Felix as king and Mildmay as…
— Sarah Monette
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In case you guys didn't catch last week's episode, I'm out of the flock," I informed them. "Angel has no allegiance to me. She's wanted…
— James Patterson
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The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who won for us…
— Loren Eiseley
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I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.
— Suzanne Collins
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Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are…
— Christopher Hitchens
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