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There are classic “Us > Them” traits, like our respect for loyalty—the feeling that being loyal is a critical virtue and nothing is worse than being a traitor.
Tim Urban • A Game of Giants — Wait but Why
Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire)
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Loyalty is a noble quality, so long as it is not blind and does not exclude the higher loyalty to truth and decency. But the word is much abused. For "loyalty," analysed, is too often a polite word for what would be more accurately described as "a conspiracy for mutual inefficiency."
B. H. Liddell Hart • Why Don't We Learn from History?
Nesryn’s eyes flickered as she said, “Long live the queen.”
Sarah J. Maas • Queen of Shadows
There are swords to be wielded by kings and then there are swords to be wielded for kings, with which to do their dirty work. His is the latter.
Thomas D. Lee • Perilous Times
Rowan said, “I’m blood-sworn to you—which means several things, one of which being that I don’t particularly care for the questioning of others, even your cousin.”