Allegiance Quotes

“I love my country, not my government.”
― Jesse Ventura

“I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“every man has a map in his heart of his own country and that the heart will never allow you to forget this map. (p. 18)”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

“My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.”
― Edward Abbey, Confessions of a Barbarian

“Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more time, or of going one more round with a hostile or (much worse) indifferent audience. I first became involved with the Czech opposition in 1968 when it was an intoxicating and celebrated cause. Then, during the depressing 1970s and 1980s I was a member of a routine committee that tried with limited success to help the reduced forces of Czech dissent to stay nourished (and published). The most pregnant moment of that commitment was one that I managed to miss at the time: I passed an afternoon with Zdenek Mlynar, exiled former secretary of the Czech Communist Party, who in the bleak early 1950s in Moscow had formed a friendship with a young Russian militant with an evident sense of irony named Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev. In 1988 I was arrested in Prague for attending a meeting of one of Vaclav Havel's 'Charter 77' committees. That outwardly exciting experience was interesting precisely because of its almost Zen-like tedium. I had gone to Prague determined to be the first visiting writer not to make use of the name Franz Kafka, but the numbing bureaucracy got the better of me. When I asked why I was being detained, I was told that I had no need to know the reason! Totalitarianism is itself a cliché (as well as a tundra of pulverizing boredom) and it forced the cliché upon me in turn. I did have to mention Kafka in my eventual story. The regime fell not very much later, as I had slightly foreseen in that same piece that it would. (I had happened to notice that the young Czechs arrested with us were not at all frightened by the police, as their older mentors had been and still were, and also that the police themselves were almost fatigued by their job. This was totalitarianism practically yawning itself to death.) A couple of years after that I was overcome to be invited to an official reception in Prague, to thank those who had been consistent friends through the stultifying years of what 'The Party' had so perfectly termed 'normalization.' As with my tiny moment with Nelson Mandela, a whole historic stretch of nothingness and depression, combined with the long and deep insult of having to be pushed around by boring and mediocre people, could be at least partially canceled and annealed by one flash of humor and charm and generosity.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

“There is almost no country in Africa where it is not essential to know to which tribe, or which subgroup of which tribe, the president belongs. From this single piece of information you can trace the lines of patronage and allegiance that define the state.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.”
― Oliver Van DeMille

“It’s a heavy responsibility, having saved someone’s life. You feel an allegiance because you saved them, but it’s hard to know if you did the right thing.”
― Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies

“Before you pledge allegiance, you should thoroughly examine your government to see if you are comfortable with doing so.”
― Steven Magee

“When you say I love you, love genuinely, when you pledge allegiance to your country, be faithful with it, desire to see people rising in life, than cutting their lives short.”
― Bamigboye Olurotimi

“America is loving me to death, loving me to death slowly, and I
Mainly try not to be disappeared here, knowing she won’t pledge
Even tolerance in return. Dear God, I can’t offer allegiance.”
― Michael Kleber-Diggs, Worldly Things

“Many would call pledging allegiance to a corrupt government to be a form of insanity.”
― Steven Magee

“To participate in the Pledge of Allegiance would be a public declaration of support to a corrupt government.”
― Steven Magee

“I have no allegiance to a corrupt government.”
― Steven Magee

“You will never see me pledge allegiance to a corrupt government.”
― Steven Magee

“People often see themselves in terms of whichever one of their allegiances is most under attack.
And sometimes, when a person doesn't have the strength to defend that allegiance, he hides it. Then it remains buried deep down in the dark, awaiting its revenge. But whether he accepts or conceals it, proclaims it discreetly or flaunts it, it is with that allegiance that the person concerned identifies. And then, whether it relates to colour, religion, language or class, it invades the person's whole identity. Other people who share the same allegiance sympathise; they all gather together, join forces, encourage one another, challenge "the other side," For them, "asserting their identity" inevitably becomes an act of liberation.”
― Amin Maalouf, الهويات القاتلة

“To identify as American is akin to pledging allegiance to a corrupt government.”
― Steven Magee

“Are you comfortable with pledging allegiance to a government that failed to prepare for a pandemic?”
― Steven Magee

“The next time you are pledging allegiance, I want you to remember that your government really messed up on COVID-19.”
― Steven Magee

“Once converted through faith in Jesus Christ, there is allegiance to the Saviour.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The flag stands for a set of principles, not the lack of adherence to them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“At times it is beneficial for us to renew our pledge to our sovereignty and allegiance to our country while disavowing schizoid polity.”
― Fidelis O. Mkparu, Tears Before Exaltation

“I pledge allegiance to the Lord Jesus Christ, my Saviour.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“My whole life has been lived in-between -- in between languages, in between cultures, in between countries ... My life resisted the kind of easy categories that the head of state had outlined for everyone. Surely, I told myself, a nation was a community, with views that are by necessity different, often divergent, and occasionally contradictory. Surely, true allegiance meant speaking up when something wasn't right.”
― Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

“Take nothing as gospel (not even my words), except growth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“A world made one, by the political union of its parts, would not only require of its citizen a shift of allegiance, but it would deprive him of the enormous personal satisfaction of distrusting what he doesn't know and despising what he has never seen. This would be a severe deprivation, perhaps an intolerable one. The awful truth is, a world government would lack an enemy, and that is a deficiency not to be lightly dismissed. It will take a yet undiscovered vitamin to supply the blood of man with a substitute for national ambition and racial antipathy; but we are discovering new vitamins all the time, and I am aware of that too.”
― E.B. White, The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters

“Many will resolutely declare their allegiance to us. And in time, that allegiance will inevitably come into direct conflict with their allegiance to themselves. Therefore, when the moment of crisis arises, the crisis is less about the crisis itself and more about the crisis of friends having forgotten the meaning of allegiance.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Worship no one, not even me. If you must worship, worship the helpless and the destitute.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers

“A great leader is a sponge with filter, observes everything, but obeys nothing.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“They're not embarrassed to show lust,
I am not ashamed to show my faith in Christ.”
― Mac Canoza