Always try to align your loyalties and commitment with the largest scope of the context you find yourself in. For example, if you work for a department in a company, align yourself with the company—not the department; if you are in an army platoon, align yourself with the army.

— Clifford Cohen

Calling resists privatization by insisting on the totality of faith. Calling resists politicization by demanding a tension with every human allegiance and association. Calling resists polarization by requiring an attitude toward, and action in, society that is inevitably transforming because it is constantly engaged. Grand Christian movements will rise and fall. Grand campaigns will be mounted and grand coalitions assembled. But all together such coordinated efforts will never match the influence of untold numbers of followers of Christ living out their callings faithfully across the vastness and complexity of modern society.

— Os Guinness

Commitment is a promise to a cause. Being non-committal is a promise to catastrophe.

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Consider intentions carefully. Karma gives a damn about ego, awards allegiance to none, and its justice is truly blind.

— T.F. Hodge

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

Instead of narrowing our allegiances to only include our favored nation, let us sing an anthem to the marvelous human being.

— Bryant McGill

Man's inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God more than he loves his fellow man. The love of God means wasted love. 'For God and Country' means a divided allegiance—a 50 percent patriot. The most abused word in the language of man is the word 'God.' The reason for this is that it is subject to so much abuse. There is no other word in the human language that is as meaningless and incapable of explanation as is the word 'God.' It is the beginning and end of nothing. It is the Alpha and Omega of Ignorance. It has as many meanings as there are minds. And as each person has an opinion of what the word God ought to mean, it is a word without premise, without foundation, and without substance. It is without validity. It is all things to all people, and is as meaningless as it is indefinable. Furthermore, it is the most dangerous in the hands of the unscrupulous, and is the joker that trumps the ace. Furthermore, it is the poisoned word that has paralyzed the brain of man.' The fear of the Lord' is not the beginning of wisdom; on the contrary, it has made man a groveling slave; it has made raving lunatics of those who have attempted to interpret what God 'is' and what is supposed to be our 'duty' to God. It has made man prostitute the most precious things of life—it has made him sacrifice wife, and child, and home.' In the name of God' means in the name of nothing—it has caused man to be a wastrel with the precious elixir of life, because there is no God.

— Joseph Lewis

Many prides themselves, staking claim to the noble virtue that is loyalty. However, many resolve to give their allegiance to nothing. How can one demand loyalty, if one stands by nothing, nor commits to the realization of an ideal?

— Justin K. McFarlane Beau

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