“The Empress expects obedience of her servants, and demands loyalty.”
“Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round.”
Source: Gardens of the Moon (1999), Chapter 3 (p. 90)
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Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor
Source: 1900s, Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter XVI: Europe
Context: In one thing, at least, I feel sure that the English are ahead of Americans, and that is, they have learned how to get more out of life. The home life of the English seems to me to be about as perfect as anything can be. Everything moves like clockwork. I was impressed, too, with the deference that the servants show to their "masters" and "mistresses" - terms which I suppose would not be tolerated in America. The English servant expects, as a rule, to be nothing but a servant, and so he perfects himself in the art to a degree that no class of servants in America has yet reached. In our country the servant expects to become, in a few years, a "master" himself. Which system is preferable? I will not venture an answer.
Diego Causero (1940) Italian apostolic nuncio
Source: Pope is not creator of the faith, but custodian of the Gospel https://www.cirkev.cz/archiv/080425-pope-is-not-creator-of-the-faith-but-custodian-of-the-gospel (2008)
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 4 “La Tia” (p. 74).
“Exceeding expectations is where satisfaction ends and loyalty begins.”
Ron Kaufman (1956) American author and consultant
Lift Me UP! Service With A Smile (2005)
“How can you expect obedience from the men when officers are corrupt?”
Bernard Cornwell (1944) British writer
General Arthur Wellesley, p. 175
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Prey (2001)
Context: My God, I will not abide plundering, especially by officers. How can you expect obedience from the men when officers are corrupt?
“I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.”
Mario Vargas Llosa book The Bad Girl
Source: Travesuras de la niña mala
“Loyalty was a funny thing. So was love. They both bit you when you least expected it.”
Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer
Source: Peaches