Misplaced Loyalty Quotes

Loyalty is important, one of the most important character traits we can have. But loyal love does not mean infinite and/or misplaced responsibility for another's life, nor does it mean that one forever puts up with mistreatment out of inappropriate loyalty.

Was this how a mutiny was sparked? In a moment of heedlessness, so that one became a stranger to the person one had been a moment before? Or was it the other way around? That this was when one recognized the stranger that one had always been to oneself; that all one’s loyalties and beliefs had been misplaced?

Their experiences led them to create assumptions about others and related beliefs about themselves such as "this is my lot in life" and "this is what I deserve". Some also learned that personal safety and happiness are of lower priority than survival and that it may be safer to give in than to actively fight off additional abuse and victimization. When abuse is perpetrated by intimates, it is additionally confounding in terms of attachment, betrayal, and trust. Victims may be unable to leave or to fight back due to strong, albeit insecure and disorganized, attachment and misplaced loyalty to abusers. They may have also experienced trauma bonding over the course of their victimization, that is, a bond of specialness with or dependence on the abuser.

On Loyalty: Loyalty is warranted only when it's been earned. Misplacing loyalty is like signing blank checks.

Please, Rave. Tell him to talk to me. I know my request sounds ridiculous, especially because your marriage isn’t real. You said it yourself, the two of you are just friends, and considering how much he loves me, it’ll never be more than that, but he just… he has such a strong sense of loyalty. Remind him that it’s misplaced.

Fine. I think wrong, I love wrong, my loyalty is misplaced, and I’m just an all-around fumbling idiot. Pardon me if I don’t give a shit that I’m not up to your standards.

It helps kids to know that they are doing some of the emotional work that their peers may be doing later in life. Learning to cope with lack of control over life’s events, grief over losing loved ones, betrayal over misplaced loyalties, and shame over feeling inadequate are struggles for everyone over the life cycle. For a percentage of people, trauma will also be their experience. These children may be lagging in some emotional developmental tasks, but be ahead, ultimately, in learning to deal with life.

loyalty is not an entitlement. And loyalty misplaced is the most dangerous thing of all.” Duncan

What Raevan did was in the name of survival, but it almost cost him his life if Anya hadn’t been there. Raevan was a slave to Sulan’s bidding, and Matthias couldn’t blame him completely. But his loyalty was misplaced.

Paranoia, soaring paranoia. It's the people who are loyalest to the Village [the State] who are most susceptible. They begin to think everyone is betraying the cause but themselves.

Sleep. We crave it, that blissful darkness that rocks us in its arms and carries us away from our cares and our worries. Life is struggle but sleep is an escape. It is the womb to which we return when our limbs are heavy and our minds are tired. Sometimes we fight it. We struggle to remain awake. Our guilt, or misplaced loyalty, keep us rooted to this coil, too afraid to move on to the next.

Your son pledged himself to me.” “So he told me,” the spymaster said. “I fear his loyalty is misplaced. I’m not the queen he’s looking for.” Jushur met my eyes. “In this life each of us must decide three things for ourselves: who to worship, who to marry, and who to serve. Only Rimush can determine if you are suitable to lead him.

After the United States of America declared war on the Empire of Japan, it placed over 100,000 Japanese residents in internment camps for fear of misplaced loyalties. This eventually spilled over to Hawaiʻi, and although the great majority of people of Japanese descent were not shipped off to the internment camps on the mainland, such shipments still happened. Due to the prevalent fear of racial lines being drawn in the war and the threat of the “Yellow Peril,” strategies of how to handle Hawaiʻi’s population of Japanese people had to be devised. These plans involved taking certain “strategic hostages” and eventually registered and consigned Japanese people to live in isolated communities. Hawaiʻi had too many Japanese Americans and Japanese people to merit shipping all of them back to the mainland, and the island was in dire need of labor and expertise. Therefore, Hawaiʻi was slowly transformed into an internment camp of sorts, with watchful guards, gated communities, and strict laws being enacted.

Sometimes, loyalty can be misplaced.

But you’re acting like we’re all little vehicles of common sense straight from birth, and not jumbles of loyalty and fear and misplaced mammalian instincts.