Eric Felten Quotes

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

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  Eric Felten (2011). “Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Loyalty   Country   Commitment  

  Eric Felten (2011). “Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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