A Quote by Mark Twain

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain
American - Writer
November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.

John Adams

Fetishes are literally viewed as fake forms of attraction. The fetish concept is used to delegitimatize attraction to any and all bodies that are not considered normative. This is why people are accused to have transgender fetishes and fat fetishes and disability fetishes, but never cisgender fetishes, thin fetishes or able-bodied fetishes. Even in cases in which the person in question exclusively partners with these latter groups.

Julia Serano

The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity

John Adams

Adherence to men, is often disloyalty to principles.

John Taylor of Caroline

Loyalty is very important when things get a little tough, as they often do when the challenge is great. Loyalty is a powerful force in producing one's individual best and more so in producing a team's best.

John Wooden

Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.

Isaac Asimov

Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty.

Alan Barth

Let it be said: Loyalty to the New World Order is disloyalty to the Republic

Pat Buchanan

Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted will inevitably differ across cultures and eras. Yet, these differences arise chiefly at the margins. All known societies embrace the virtues of truthfulness, integrity, loyalty, fairness; none explicitly endorse falsehood, dishonesty, disloyalty, gross inequity. (Five Minds for the Future, p136)

Howard Gardner

There's no reason to think that you'll be capable of loyalty to a diet until you address your basic disloyalty toward yourself.

Marianne Williamson

Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.

Richard Cushing

European democracy was originally imbued with a sense of Christian responsibility and self-discipline, but these spiritual principles have been gradually losing their force. Spiritual independence is being pressured on all sides by the dictatorship of self-satisfied vulgarity, of the latest fads, and of group interests.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I've come up through the ranks of this parliamentary party and let me tell you the principles that have guided me on that journey since my first election 25 years ago: Loyalty to the party, service to our country, and a determination to always do my best for the people. They are principles that still guide me.

Brian Cowen

The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.

John Ortberg

Peace means loyalty to self. ... And loyalty to one's self means never a gap between thought, speech, act.

Ruth Beebe Hill

What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are constantly trying to give their children — concrete, imaginative, teaching general principles from particular instances, and seeking all the time to bring the children to appreciate and share the parent's own attitudes and view of life… The all-embracing principles of conduct

J. I. Packer

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