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This page is about loyalty as faithfulness to a cause. Loyalty also means devotion,dependent. and honest to one person or thing. For its use in business, see loyalty business model
Loyalty business model

The loyalty business model is a business model used in strategic management in which company resources are employed so as to increase the loyalty of customers and other stakeholders in the expectation that corporate objectives will be met or surpassed....
 or Loyalty Marketing
Loyalty marketing

Loyalty marketing is an approach to marketing, based on strategic management, in which a company focuses on growing and retaining existing customers through incentives....
. For the Angel episode, see Loyalty (Angel).


Loyalty is faithfulness or a devotion to a person or cause.

Loyalty and ethics
The concept of loyalty is an important part of ethics
Ethics

Ethics is a word for a philosophy that encompasses proper conduct and good living. It is significantly broader than the common conception of ethics as the analyzing of right and wrong....
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Quotations


He will only be gone from the school when none are loyal to him.

Harry, in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by JK Rowling

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

Woodrow Wilson

The bonds of loyalty can tie one to the grave.

Grave Pact





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This page is about loyalty as faithfulness to a cause. Loyalty also means devotion,dependent. and honest to one person or thing. For its use in business, see loyalty business model
Loyalty business model

The loyalty business model is a business model used in strategic management in which company resources are employed so as to increase the loyalty of customers and other stakeholders in the expectation that corporate objectives will be met or surpassed....
 or Loyalty Marketing
Loyalty marketing

Loyalty marketing is an approach to marketing, based on strategic management, in which a company focuses on growing and retaining existing customers through incentives....
. For the Angel episode, see Loyalty (Angel).


Loyalty is faithfulness or a devotion to a person or cause.

Loyalty and ethics


The concept of loyalty is an important part of ethics
Ethics

Ethics is a word for a philosophy that encompasses proper conduct and good living. It is significantly broader than the common conception of ethics as the analyzing of right and wrong....
. Plato
Plato

Plato , was a Classical Greece Greeks philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Platonic Academy in Ancient Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the western world....
 originally said that only a man who is just can be loyal, and that loyalty is a condition of genuine philosophy
Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
. The philosopher Josiah Royce
Josiah Royce

Josiah Royce was an American objective idealism philosopher....
 said it was the supreme moral good, and that one's devotion to an object mattered more than the merits of the object itself. Loyalty is a quality you look for in a friend.

Loyalty in the Bible

Jesus
Jesus

Jesus of Nazareth , also known as Jesus Christ, is the central figure of Christianity and is revered by most Christian churches as the Son of God and the Incarnation ....
 said, “No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.” (Matthew 6:24 NIV) Attempting to serve two masters leads to “double-mindedness” (James 4:8), undermining loyalty to a cause. . James 5:2.

Loyalty in Literature

  • Der Untertan
    Der Untertan

    Der Untertan is the most famous novel by German author Heinrich Mann. It has been translated into English under the titles "Man of Straw," "The Patrioteer," and "The Loyal Subject" ....
     (Heinrich Mann
    Heinrich Mann

    Luiz Heinrich Mann was a Germany novelist who wrote works with social themes whose attacks on the authoritarian and increasingly militaristic nature of post-Weimar German society led to his exile in 1933....
     1918)


Loyalty in Social Communities

  • Commitment and Social Organization: A Study of Commitment Mechanisms in Utopian Communities, by Rosabeth Moss Kanter © 1968 American Sociological Association.


See also

  • Blind obedience
  • Social solidarity