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Disloyal Quotes

The weight of breaking faith.

Disloyal quotes here weigh personal guilt, like feeling disloyal to family roots, against larger questions of Being loyal to history or country.

The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow their domestic relations, deprive loyal men of their property, and disloyal as well, without trial or condemnation.

Quotes by Melville Fuller

In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without being disloyal to the essence of history.

Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa

It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces.

Quotes by Lewis Thomas

What is a disloyal act? A person is disloyal if he treats you as a stranger when, in fact, he belongs to you as a friend or partner. Each of us is bound to some special others by the invisible...

Quotes by Lewis B. Smedes

Always Quotes

There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.

Quotes by Kevin Bacon

I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it.

Quotes by Julie Andrews

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

As Asian-Americans, the charge that is often lobbed against us is sort of the least original: the idea that somehow we're perpetual foreigners, that we can't be trusted, and that even my father, who was patriotic to the point that...

Quotes by David Henry Hwang

I can remember - I don't want to identify the individual - but a very prominent Democrat, who compared looking at Carter and then Reagan, and then Bush, and observed that many of the people around Carter were totally disloyal...

Quotes by Bobby Ray Inman

America Quotes

Do I sometimes wish I were thinner? God, in the old days, absolutely I did, but now I feel that to lose weight would be disloyal to myself.

Quotes by Ashley Graham

If you are pro love, you have to be a little bit disloyal to the romantic feelings that propel you in the early days.

Quotes by Alain de Botton

Frequently Asked Questions

What makes disloyal quotes distinctive?
These quotes treat disloyalty as a serious moral question, from personal guilt about family roots to constitutional arguments during the Civil War era.
Why do people search for disloyal quotes?
People often want language that captures the discomfort of feeling disloyal, whether to family, history, or a set of beliefs.
Is there a fiction-versus-fact angle here?
Yes, one quote argues that fiction lets you manipulate reality without being disloyal to the essence of history, treating disloyalty as a craft question too.
Do these quotes focus only on personal relationships?
No, one quote ties disloyalty to sweeping political and constitutional change during the Emancipation era, giving the topic historical weight.
What other topics pair well with disloyal quotes?
For related themes, browse Always quotes and Being quotes.

One quote even ties disloyalty to Civil War-era politics and constitutional upheaval. For related themes, see Always quotes and America quotes.