Materials on the topic "loyalty and betrayal". “Loyalty is not a feeling, it’s a decision”: a selection of quotes about fidelity and betrayal Quotes on the topic of fidelity and love
Loyalty and betrayal are two complex social concepts that are of great importance to humanity.
Loyalty, as we understand it, is a positive characteristic. Cheating, in turn, has a negative connotation. It is worth considering fidelity and betrayal not only in the prism of the love relationship of two people. These concepts are universal. Loyalty is a moral and ethical concept, according to Ozhegov’s dictionary: steadfastness and constancy in feelings, relationships, in the performance of one’s duties and duty. Violation of fidelity is treason. "Loyalty is devotion to someone or something; it is constancy in one's promises, words, relationships, in the performance of one's duties, duty. Loyalty is based on responsibility, perseverance, honesty, courage, sacrifice. Similar qualities: dedication, constancy, firmness, steadfastness. Opposites: treachery, betrayal, infidelity, betrayal, deceit.
Synonyms: devotion, constancy, endurance, immutability, firmness, steadfastness, zeal, diligence, honesty, accuracy, serviceability, conscientiousness, accuracy, correctness, infallibility, fairness, reliability; Love,; certainty, infallibility, truthfulness, commitment, indisputability, evidence, authenticity, self-evidence, reliability, undistortedness.
Treason is a violation of fidelity to someone or something. Synonyms: betrayal, perfidy, infidelity; fornication, strikebreaking, adultery, knife in the back, fornication, fornication, apostasy, adultery.
FIPI commentary: “Within the framework of the direction, one can talk about fidelity and betrayal as opposite manifestations of the human personality, considering them from philosophical, ethical, psychological points of view and referring to life and literary examples.
The concepts of “loyalty” and “betrayal” are at the center of the plots of many works of different eras and characterize the actions of heroes in situations of moral choice, both in personal relationships and in a social context.”
Since these concepts are quite broad, we will consider them in different contexts.
1. Loyalty/betrayal in the broad sense.
2. Fidelity/betrayal in the love sphere.
3. Loyalty (treason) to the Motherland, public duty
4. Loyalty/betrayal in relation to a friend, comrade, person who trusted.
5. Loyalty/betrayal towards oneself, one’s moral principles, one’s calling, goals, word, religious beliefs.
6. Loyalty of animals to their owners.
Quotes for the final essay on “Loyalty and Betrayal.”
1. Loyalty/betrayal . Trust is a sign of courage, and loyalty is a sign of strength. (Maria Ebner Eschenbach)
2. Treason can be forgiven, but resentment cannot. (A. Akhmatova)
3. How can you deal with someone you can't trust?
4. If a cart doesn't have an axle, how can you ride it? (Confucius)
5. He who has never sworn allegiance will never break it. (August Platen)
6. Happiness needs fidelity, but misfortune can do without it. (Seneca)
7. Only once do we lose life and trust. (Publius Syrus)
8. Constancy is the basis of virtue. (O. Balzac)
9. To be faithful is a virtue, to know fidelity is an honor. (Maria Ebner-Eschenbach)
10. Without constancy there can be no love, no friendship, no virtue. (D. Addison)
11. A noble heart cannot be unfaithful. (O. Balzac)
12. We judge the slightest infidelity towards us much more harshly than the most insidious betrayal towards others. (F. La Rochefoucauld)
13. In this world I value only loyalty. Without this, you are nothing and you have no one. In life, this is the only currency that will never depreciate. (Vysotsky V.S.)
14. Treason begins in the heart before it manifests itself in action. (J. Swift)
15. Readers can cheat on the writer as much as they want, but the writer must always be faithful to the reader. (W. H. Auden)
16. Betrayals are most often committed not out of deliberate intention, but out of weakness of character. (F. de La Rochefoucauld)
17. Loyalty, which can be maintained only at the cost of great effort, is no better than betrayal. (F. de La Rochefoucauld)
18. Traitors are despised even by those they served.
19. (Tacitus Publius Cornelius)
20. 2. Loyalty/betrayal in the love sphere.
21. In the demand for fidelity there is the greed of the owner. We would willingly give up many things if it were not for the fear that someone else would pick it up (O. Wilde)
22. True love helps you endure all hardships. (F. Schiller)
23. If your wife cheated on you, then be glad that she cheated on you and not on your fatherland. (A.P. Chekhov) People often cheat for the sake of ambition, but then they will never cheat on ambition for the sake of love. (F. de La Rochefoucauld)
24. Constancy is the ever-present dream of love. (Vauvenargues)
25. They love those who are going to betray, but they hate those who have already betrayed. (Dm. Arkady)
27. You cannot rely on female fidelity; Happy is he who looks at it indifferently. (A.S. Pushkin)
28. When you love, you don’t want to drink any other water except that which you find in your favorite source. Loyalty in this case is a natural thing. In a loveless marriage, after less than two months, the water of the source becomes bitter. (Stendhal)
29. The basis of love, its primary condition, is faith, unconditional loyalty and devotion. True love is not blind; on the contrary, it perhaps opens a person’s eyes for the first time. The slightest betrayal of a loved one, whether it happens sooner or later, is a complete betrayal of everything, from the very beginning, it destroys not only the future, but also the past, because it means that every day of a life full of trust was a lie and the heart was deceived. Anyone who turns out to be unfaithful at least once will never be faithful. (David Scott)
30. 3. Loyalty/betrayal to the Motherland, public duty.
31. To betray the homeland requires extreme baseness of soul. (N.G. Chernyshevsky)
32. There is only one crime that cannot be atoned for - treason against one's state. The homeland cannot be changed, it can only be betrayed. A person who truly loves his homeland always knows its value... You don’t have to be a famous person to express your opinion... (E.V. Gushchina)
33. Ignorance, selfishness and betrayal are the three irreconcilable enemies of patriotism. (Garegin Need)
34. There is no higher idea than to sacrifice your own life in defense of your brothers and your fatherland. (F.M. Dostoevsky)
35. You can't be a hero while fighting against your homeland. (Hugo V.)
36. Is it possible to escape from yourself by leaving your homeland? (Horace)
37. If the holy army shouts: “Throw away Rus', live in paradise!”, I will say: “No need for paradise, Give me my homeland.” (S.A. Yesenin)
38. Everyone’s duty is to love their homeland, to be incorruptible and courageous, to remain faithful to it, even at the cost of their lives. (J.-J. Rousseau)
39. I understand loyalty as loyalty to the motherland, and not to its institutions and rulers. Homeland is true, lasting, eternal; you need to take care of your homeland, you need to love it, you need to be faithful to it; institutions are something external, like clothing, and clothing can wear out, tear, become uncomfortable, and cease to protect the body from cold, illness and death. (M. Twain)
40. 4. Loyalty/betrayal towards a friend, comrade, etc. Be faithful to those who are faithful to you. (Plat)
41. Both in friendship and in love, sooner or later the time comes to settle scores. (D.B. Shaw)
42. Cheating on a friend is much more painful than cheating on a loved one, because you expect it less from him. (Etienne Rey)
43. Cheating on a friend is a crime. Without justification, without forgiveness. (Lope de Vega)
44. Loyalty is the commandment of friendship, the most precious thing that can be given to a person. (E. Telman)
45. Half friend is half traitor. (V. Hugo)
46. An unfaithful friend is like a shadow that follows you while the sun shines. (K. Dossey)
47. A person devoted to you is a friend; betrayed by you is an enemy. (A. Nadanyan)
48. 5. Loyalty/betrayal towards oneself, one’s moral principles, one’s calling, goals, word, religious beliefs, etc. Be true to yourself, and then, as surely as night follows day, loyalty to others will follow. (Shakespeare)
49. A stupid person is the one who never changes his opinion. (W. Churchill)
50. He who is true only to himself is always unfaithful to others. (L. Sukhorukov)
51. He who never changes his views loves himself more than the truth. (J. Joubert)
52. He who betrays himself loves no one in this world. (Shakespeare)
53. Be true to yourself, and then, as surely as night follows day, loyalty to others will follow. (Shakespeare)
54. If you concealed the truth, hid it, if you did not get up from your seat and did not speak at the meeting, if you spoke without telling the whole truth, you have betrayed the truth. (J. London)
55. But it’s sad to think that youth was given to us in vain, That they cheated on it all the time, That it deceived us. (A.S. Pushkin)
56. To change or not to change is entirely up to you. The main thing is not to cheat on yourself, not to waste money on what is really not needed, and to be able to preserve what is truly valuable. (O. Roy)
57. To be authentic means to be true to yourself. (Osho)
58. Liveliness of mind is not very attractive to a person if it is not accompanied by correctness of judgment. It's not the good watch that goes fast, but the one that shows the exact time. (Vauvenargues)
59. The word “loyalty” has done a lot of harm. People have learned to be “faithful” to a thousand injustices and lawlessness. Meanwhile, they should have been true only to themselves, and then they would have rebelled against deception. (M. Twain)
60. Traitors betray themselves first of all. (Plutarch)
61. 6. Loyalty of animals to their owners. White Fang did not love Gray Beaver - and yet remained faithful to him in spite of his will, his anger. He couldn't help it. This is how he was created. Loyalty was the property of the White Fang breed, fidelity distinguished him from all other animals, fidelity brought the wolf and the wild dog to man and allowed them to become his comrades. (J. London)
62. Loyalty is a quality that people have lost, but dogs have retained. (A.P. Chekhov)
63. Not a single dog in the world considers ordinary devotion to be something unusual. But people came up with the idea of extolling this feeling of a dog as a feat only because not all of them, and not so often, possess devotion to a friend and loyalty to duty so much that this is the root of life, the natural basis of the being itself, when the nobility of the soul is a self-evident state. (G. Troepolsky)
64. A lot has already been written about dog fidelity, but no one, it seems, has yet said that fidelity is happiness. He who serves the one he loves already receives his reward. (L. Ashkenazi)
65. Anyone who has felt affection for a faithful and intelligent dog has no need to explain with what ardent gratitude she pays for it. There is something in the unselfish and selfless love of the beast that conquers the heart of anyone who has more than once experienced the treacherous friendship and deceptive devotion characteristic of Man. (E. A. Poe)
Loyalty is a direct confirmation of the sincerity of feelings and relationships. Be it friendship or love, if they are real, then you will never know what betrayal is. And this manifests itself not only in relation to people, but also to preferences, views, interests. Following your position in life and observing the principles dictated by your own “I” means being true to yourself. We offer you an interesting selection of quotes, aphorisms and sayings about devotion and betrayal. Let the phrases of classics and contemporaries inspire you to be inspired by your work and sensitive to those close to you.
Just loyalty and devotion are forgotten virtues in our time. (Jude Deveraux)You cannot rely on female fidelity; Happy is he who looks at it indifferently. (A. Pushkin)
Adultery brings more evil than good marriage. (Balzac)
Be true to yourself, and then, as surely as night follows day, loyalty to others will follow. (Shakespeare)
In fidelity there is a little laziness, a little fear, a little calculation, a little fatigue, a little passivity, and sometimes even a little fidelity. (Etienne Rey)
Loyalty is the greed of the owner. We would willingly give up many things if it were not for the fear that someone else would pick it up. (O. Wild)
In this world I value only loyalty. Without this, you are nothing and you have no one. In life, this is the only currency that will never depreciate. (V. Vysotsky)
True love helps you endure all hardships. (Friedrich Schiller)
I want to continue to live in a world where loyalty still exists, and vows of love are made forever... (Paulo Coelho)
A woman remains faithful in two cases: when she believes that her man is not like anyone else, or when she believes that all men are the same. (Konstantin Melikhan)
The bank called “loyalty” is a very serious bank. All you have to do is make one deposit on the side and that’s it - your account is closed. (From the film Family Man)
To remain faithful to an unloved person means to betray yourself. ( Konstantin Melikhan)
There are feelings that can only be tested by time. And among them is fidelity to love. (Anne and Serge Golon) Loyalty in love is entirely a matter of physiology; it does not depend at all on our will. Young people want to be faithful - and they are not, old people would like to change, but where can they be? (O. Wild)
A woman's loyalty is tested when her man has nothing. A man's loyalty is tested when he has everything!
Loyalty is a sign of laziness. (O. Wild)
Loyalty is such a rarity and such a value. It is not an innate feeling: to be faithful. This is the solution!
Honesty and loyalty are an expensive gift that you should not expect from cheap people. (B. Shaw)
Cheating with your eyes is the most pleasant way to remain faithful. ( Frederick Beigbeder)
When you love, you don’t want to drink any other water except that which you find in your favorite source. Loyalty in this case is a natural thing. In a loveless marriage, after less than two months, the water of the source becomes bitter. (Stendhal)
Treason can be forgiven, but resentment cannot. (A. Akhmatova)
For a man to admit cheating means to forgive himself. (Etienne Rey) How can you deal with someone you can't trust? If a cart doesn't have an axle, how can you ride it? (Confucius)
Treason begins in the heart before it manifests itself in action. (J. Swift)
Readers can cheat on the writer as much as they want, but the writer must always be faithful to the reader. (W. H. Auden)
Betrayals are most often committed not out of deliberate intention, but out of weakness of character. (F. de La Rochefoucauld)
Loyalty is a matter of conscience. And betrayal is a matter of time...
A woman gets more pleasure from cheating than a man: for him it’s not God knows what event, but for her cheating always means revenge, or passion, or sin. (Etienne Rey)
I love betrayal, but not traitors. ( Gaius Julius Caesar)
Treason is a more shameful thing than murder. (Ernst Heine)
Quotes from poets (classics and contemporaries)
Loyalty is a straight road without loops,
Loyalty is a virtue of a mature soul,
Loyalty - August glory and smoke,
Heat, young people cannot understand it,
Loyalty - we walked under bullets together,
Faithful friends were buried together.
Sadness and courage - I won’t tell you.
Loyalty to the bread and fidelity to the knife,
Loyalty to death and fidelity to insults.
I won’t remember the delirium of my heart, I won’t betray it.
Aim for the heart! They will walk over you
Loyalty to the heart and loyalty to fate. (Ilya Erenburg, “Loyalty”)
Children are a confirmation of the loyalty and love of their parents... There is no place in the world for fidelity,
Be prepared for his deceptions.
Know: our world is an old bride
With a countless crowd of suitors. (Hafiz Shirazi)You will remain in memory - these calm pines,
And the night Pakhra, and the smoke over the distant raft.
You will remain in my heart, my springs near Moscow,
No matter what happens to you, no matter what happens to me later... (Yu. Drunina “Loyalty”)Happy monogamous people
Are they fellow believers?
The soul does not decline
Half measures are alien to her.
To fall in love once and for all -
This is neither less nor more
Decide in life
Choose your own path. (Yashin, “Happy Monogamous People”)
Photography remains faithful to the past... I saw how people went blind,
I saw how they lived in hell,
I saw the ground beating.
I saw the sky in ashes.
I don't believe in faith.
Bad? Say it's bad.
Right? Say what's true.
No boasting, no begging,
I only believe in you, Loyalty,
Age, people, fate.
If you endure without a fairy tale,
If they ask, answer directly,
If to a post, without a bandage, -
Loyalty knows how to look. (Ilya Erenburg, “Loyalty”)
Quotes from great thinkers, philosophers, aphorists
Consider as faithful not those who echo your words, but those who oppose what you say incorrectly. (Isocrates)
If you are in your right mind, do not dream that the one who fell into your arms with such speed will be faithful to you. (Ovid)
Loyalty in love requires abstinence, but only with its help can one learn the innermost charm of love. (R. Tagore)
Loyalty is like a wife. You always need to know who it belongs to. (Scott Becker)
Loyalty is like air. You don’t think about her while she’s there. (S. Yasinsky)
To be faithful is a virtue, to know fidelity is an honor. ( Ebner-Eschenbach)
Loyalty is the punishment for love. (Ewa Radomska-Vitek)
(W. Churchill)
Trust is a sign of courage, and loyalty is a sign of strength. (Maria Ebner Eschenbach)
If there is trust and no loyalty, there is a family, but if there is loyalty and no trust, there is no family. (Veselin Georgiev)
Quotes and sayings about loyalty to the homeland
The best purpose is to defend your fatherland. (Derzhavin)
To betray the homeland requires extreme baseness of soul. (N. Chernyshevsky)
Everyone’s duty is to love their homeland, to be incorruptible and courageous, to remain faithful to it, even at the cost of their lives. (J.-J. Rousseau)
While we are burning with freedom, While our hearts are alive for honor, My friend, let us dedicate our Souls to our homeland with wonderful impulses! (A. Pushkin)
You cannot forget your homeland. There is no more noble disease than homesickness. (I. Gaman)
Love for the homeland is the first dignity of a civilized person. (N. Bonaparte) The true courage of enlightened peoples lies in their readiness to sacrifice themselves in the name of their homeland. (G. Hegel)
Motherland... We owe it our strength, inspiration, and joys. (A. Blok)
It is joyful and honorable to die for the fatherland. (Horace)
You can't be a hero while fighting against your homeland. (V. Hugo)
Is it possible to escape from yourself by leaving your homeland? (Horace)
If the holy army shouts: “Throw away Rus', live in paradise!”, I will say: “No need for paradise, Give me my homeland.” (S. A. Yesenin)
True patriotism is not the kind that fusses and swaggers in solemn moments, but the kind that daily and tirelessly cares about the common good and does not boast about it. (A. Graf)
Love for the fatherland is compatible with love for the whole world. (C. Helvetius) Fatherland and smoke is sweet and pleasant to us. (A. S. Griboyedov)
If your wife cheated on you, then be glad that she cheated on you and not on your fatherland. (A.P. Chekhov)
There is only one crime that cannot be atoned for - treason against one's state. The homeland cannot be changed, it can only be betrayed. A person who truly loves his homeland always knows its value... (E.V. Gushchina)
About friendship
Cheating on a friend is much more painful than cheating on a loved one, because you expect it less from him. (Etienne Rey)
He who leaves a friend in trouble will himself know the bitterness of troubles.
The friendship of two women is always a conspiracy against the third
The friend can't leave. He can only leave... Nothing replaces old friendship. Years do not add friends, they take them away, take them along different roads. Time tests friendship for rupture, fatigue, and loyalty. The circle of friends is thinning, but there is nothing more valuable than those that remain.
Friendship has changed so much that it allows for betrayal, does not require meetings, correspondence, heated conversations, and even allows for the presence of one friend. (M. Zhvanetsky)
Cheating on a friend is a crime without justification, without forgiveness.
At the height of greatness, do not forget that a friend is in need. (Johann Schiller)
Friendship is a feeling that comes from childhood... Trust is the first condition of friendship; it can be said to serve as the threshold of the temple, while the willingness to make sacrifices is the temple itself. (Jean Labruyère)
The most vile crime is abusing a friend's trust. (Henrik Ibsen).
It's good if the dog is a friend, and not the friend is a dog. (L. Sukhorukov)
About animal devotion
Loyalty is a quality that people have lost, but dogs have retained. (A.P. Chekhov)
A dog is the only creature on earth that loves you more than itself. (J.Billings)
The only true friend in Washington is a dog. (G. Truman)
If the soul is the ability to love, be devoted and grateful, then animals possess it to a greater extent than many people. (James Herriot)
Loyalty is not for sale. Still from the film "Hachiko" In the history of civilization there are many more examples of canine fidelity than human ones. (A. Pope)
Only a faithful dog is faithful to us to the end. (K. Lorenz)
The dog is the only animal whose loyalty is unshakable. (J. Buffon)
Unlike people, dogs never pretend: they love their friends, but they bite their enemies. (Giles Rowland)
About loyalty to your ideals and principles
When you love, you don’t want to drink any other water except that which you find in your favorite source. Loyalty in this case is a natural thing. (Stendhal)
Be true to yourself, and then, as surely as night follows day, loyalty to others will follow. (William Shakespeare)
To be authentic means to be true to yourself. (Osho)
A stupid person is the one who never changes his opinion. (W. Churchill)
Definition of the word "loyalty"
Loyalty:
1) Perseverance and immutability in feelings, relationships, in the performance of one’s duties and duty (dictionary by S. I. Ozhegov, N. Yu. Shvedova).
2) Constancy in beliefs and views, steadfastness and immutability in one’s feelings and relationships, in the performance of duties, debt (dictionary by A. P. Guskov, B. V. Sotin).
Synonyms for the word "loyalty":
constancy, immutability, firmness, steadfastness, honesty, accuracy, good faith, accuracy, correctness, infallibility, fairness, reliability; love, devotion; certainty, infallibility, commitment, indisputability, reliability, undistortedness.
Antonyms for the word "loyalty":
treason, betrayal, infidelity.
Associations to the word “loyalty”:
Love, wife, husband, trust, friendship, oath, chastity, comrade, duty, feelings, marriage, faith, jealousy, eternity, marriage, family, purity, tradition, union.
Epithets for the word "loyalty":
conjugal, unchanging, unshakable, absolute, indestructible, true, blind, dog, endless, rare, boundless, long-term, friendly, exceptional, sincere, selfless, spiritual, great, touching, extraordinary.
Proverbs about fidelity
He who has never sworn allegiance will never break it.
Whoever reveals a secret breaks fidelity.
A true friend loves to death.
To be faithful is a virtue, to know fidelity is an honor.
Loyalty is the commandment of friendship.
There is no price for a true friend.
A true friend is better than a hundred servants.
Weapons will protect, but the best defense is loyalty.
True love neither burns in fire nor drowns in water.
A noble heart cannot be unfaithful.
To believe firmly means to win.
Quotes, aphorisms about fidelity
To be faithful is a virtue, to know fidelity is an honor.
Maria von Ebner Eschenba
Loyalty is like air. You don’t think about her while she’s there.
Sergey Yasinsky
There are feelings that can only be tested by time. And among them is fidelity to love.
Anne and Serge Golon “Angelique”
Happiness needs fidelity, but misfortune can do without it.
Seneca
The word “loyalty” has done a lot of harm. People have learned to be “faithful” to a thousand injustices and lawlessness. Meanwhile, they should have been true only to themselves, and then they would have rebelled against deception.
Mark Twain
Be true to yourself, and then, as surely as night follows day, loyalty to others will follow.
William Shakespeare
Be faithful to those who are faithful to you.
Plautus
In this life, loyalty can only be demanded from a dog.
Anatoly Rakhmatov
True love helps you endure all hardships.
Johann Friedrich Schiller
Definition of the word "treason"
Treason:
1) Betrayal of the interests of the homeland, going over to the side of the enemy (Dictionary by S. I. Ozhegov, N. Yu. Shvedova).
2) Violation of fidelity to someone or something
(Dictionary by S.I. Ozhegov, N.Yu. Shvedova).
3)
Violation of fidelity in love, in marriage (Dictionary by T. Yu. Efremova).
4) Refusal of previous views, habits, etc. (Dictionary by T. Yu. Efremova).
Synonyms for the word "treason":
infidelity, betrayal, knife in the back, perfidy.
Antonyms for the word "treason":
fidelity, devotion.
Associations to the word “treason”:
jealousy, pain, change, sin, homeland, grief, cruelty, impermanence.
Epithets for the word "treason":
state, marital, vile, vile, insidious, double, secret, national.
Proverbs about treason
You can die, but you cannot change.
If you fall as a hero, they will raise you up; if you become a traitor, they will crush you.
Whoever betrays his homeland is despised by the people.
If you change, you will find death; if you give up, you will die in agony.
For treason against the people - head in the water.
There is no forgiveness for betrayal.
He who does not value his homeland will not live in the world.
Whoever trades in the Motherland will not escape punishment.
A traitor and a coward are two birds of a feather.
Quotes, aphorisms about treason
Betrayals are most often committed not out of deliberate intention, but out of weakness of character.
Francois La Rochefoucauld
Betrayal is a blow you don't expect.
Paulo Coelho
Cheating on a friend is a crime
No excuse, no forgiveness.
Lope Felix de Vega Carpio (Lope de Vega)
The easiest way is to forgive your own betrayal.
Christina Kofta
Infidelity is forgiven, but not forgotten.
Marie Madeleine de Lafayette
Direction "Loyalty and betrayal" of the final essay 2017-2018 in literature: examples, samples
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How do I understand the expression “fidelity to duty”? In my opinion, the meaning of this expression is revealed when it comes to military duty. For a defender of the Motherland, this is, first of all, the readiness to fulfill one’s duty in any situation, to be ready to give one’s life if necessary. I will illustrate what has been said with several examples.
Thus, in A.S. Pushkin’s work “The Captain’s Daughter,” the main character Peter Grinev demonstrates loyalty to duty. When Pugachev captured the Belogorsk fortress, all its defenders were asked to go over to the side of the rebels. Otherwise they were executed. The author shows that Pyotr Grinev, just like the commandant of the fortress, refused to become a traitor and was ready to accept death, but not betray his oath. Only a happy accident saved the hero from the gallows. Later, Pugachev again invites Grinev to go into his service, to which he responds with a decisive refusal: “I am a natural nobleman; I swore allegiance to the Empress: I cannot serve you.” When Pugachev asks him to at least not fight against him, Grinev again answers negatively:<Как могу тебе в этом обещаться? ... Сам знаешь, не моя воля: велят идти против тебя - пойду, делать нечего. Ты теперь сам начальник; сам требуешь повиновения от своих. На что это будет похоже, если я от службы откажусь, когда служба моя понадобится? Мы видим, что герой проявляет верность воинскому долгу: не изменяет присяге, даже рискуя жизнью.
Another example can be the hero of the story of the same name by V. Bykov “Sotnikov”. Finding himself in the hands of the police, partisan Sotnikov does not think about saving his own life. He withstands torture, but does not give away the squad's location. He also accepts death on the gallows with courage; it never occurs to him to betray his duty and become a traitor, to serve the enemy. Even before his death, he thinks only about saving his comrade and the local residents who helped them. His behavior is a shining example of fidelity to duty.
Summing up what has been said, I would like to express the hope that even today the expression<верность долгу>will not be an empty phrase, and in difficult situations there will always be those who will show devotion to the Fatherland.
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What can push a person to cheat? It seems that there may be many reasons that prompted a person to commit treason. It could be selfishness, fear for one’s life, cowardice, or weakness of character. Let's look at a few examples.
So, in the story by N.M. Karamzin's "Poor Liza" we see the young nobleman Erast, who won the heart of the simple peasant woman Liza. The author shows that after some time, Erast cheated on his beloved: when he went to the army, he promised the girl to return, but in reality he left her forever. Moreover, having lost almost all of his estate at cards, he decided to improve his affairs by marrying a rich woman. What prompted Erast to commit such an unseemly act? This is also greed, because he did not want to lose his fortune and settle for poverty. At the same time, the reason for the betrayal can also be considered the selfishness of the young man, who thought only about himself and his interests, not caring at all about the impact his action would have on Lisa, who was devoted to him with all her heart. Erast treated the girl as something that could be thrown away as unnecessary, and did not think that for her his behavior would be a fatal blow, which ultimately ended her life (the reader learns that Lisa committed suicide after learning about her lover’s betrayal) . Selfishness and selfishness are what pushed him to betrayal.
Let us now turn to V. Bykov’s story “Sotnikov”. We see a partisan named Rybak, who, having fallen into the hands of the enemy, decides to betray: he is ready to betray the location of the partisan detachment to the enemies, serve in the police, and even take part in the execution of a comrade. What pushed him to betray his Motherland and his duty as a defender of the Fatherland? First of all, fear for your life. Cowardice and weakness of character determine his post-navels. The fisherman wants to live at all costs. For him, this is more important than duty to his homeland, honor, and camaraderie. He thinks only about himself, and is easily ready to sacrifice others in order to save himself. This is also selfishness, which can be considered the cause of betrayal in this case.
Summing up, we can come to the conclusion: a person is pushed to betrayal by various reasons, but they are always based on selfishness, concern only for one’s own interests, and disregard for the lives of other people.
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Being loyal to someone or something is an important choice that everyone must make in life. We must decide for ourselves to whom we want to be loyal. If for the Motherland, then a patriot is an honor; if for a family, it is pride; if for friends, it is courage; if for a loved one, it is will; if for ideals, it is determination and perseverance.
Being faithful is very difficult. It is difficult to understand that, having chosen something, we forever swear to go through life with it, to cherish and store it. How many people know what fidelity is and how many know how to maintain it? Know that this is a very small number, because we lose faith in ourselves, in our strength, in the very concept of fidelity. We began to forget what it was like and what feelings it should evoke.
Being faithful is a choice. And when a person does it consciously, and does not think that he will succeed, then he completely surrenders to what he remains faithful to. After all, making a choice towards fidelity means that you will have to make considerable sacrifices in order to preserve it and even increase it. And before making such an important decision, you always need to think, more than once, comprehend, weigh all the pros and cons.
And, when it becomes clear that the “for” prevails, then you can devote yourself to what you have chosen. And if you still have doubts or uncertainty about whether it’s worth it or not, then immediately stop thinking about it and don’t swear to something you can’t keep.
It also happens that a person is as faithful as a dog, but are they faithful to him? Often people demand this very loyalty from those who are unlikely to be able to give it to the extent required. Then people's hearts harden and thoughts become harsher.
Actions become inexplicable and mutual. This one, who once chose loyalty, got burned and now believes that no one else deserves it, so other people suffer.
Many times we have witnessed the loyalty of animals. These were dogs, birds, and many others. How did we feel? For example, I am disappointed, disappointed in people, in their hasty loud phrases, in their rash actions. I have always believed that you must first begin to remain faithful to yourself and your principles and views, and only then swear allegiance to others.
But, if you have made this choice to be faithful, then do not betray yourself or your choice. How wonderful it is to feel needed and know that they are faithful to you, this means that you are valued and loved. You come first for this person. But it’s doubly pleasant to know that you are faithful.
Total: 401 words
We quite often hear these antonyms in life: fidelity and betrayal. And everyone understands these words in their own way. Why? Loyalty is defined as constancy in feelings, affections, and beliefs. But rarely does anyone remember the meaning of the root word - faith. Faith is a belief in something that is unshakable in your ideas and understanding. But betrayal is nothing more than a violation of fidelity to someone or something. According to Christian ethics, adultery is a particularly serious sin. But betrayal does not have to be in the area of faith. There is such a thing as adultery, betrayal of the Motherland, betrayal of convictions. All these are variations of this comprehensive concept.
I want to address the understanding of adultery and fidelity. And in this regard, remember the works of our literature. In D.N. Ostrovsky’s drama “The Thunderstorm” this problem is raised. The main character of the drama, Katerina Kabanova, cheated on her husband with a young man who came from the capital. Unusual, unlike the residents of the city of Kalinova, Boris in his special dress seems so bright and unique to Katerina. She falls in love with him literally at first sight. His delicacy and tact do not at all fit with the darkness, lack of education, rudeness and rudeness of the local residents. However, Katerina, who has never loved anyone before, chooses Boris as her betrothed, a man sent by God. She, once taking a step towards her chosen one, decides that he is her destiny. Cheating on her husband, in her understanding, is not cheating at all. She never loved Boris, although she tried to be faithful to him. In fact, he changed it because he left her alone in this evil world. But she is tormented by the fact of the oath during the wedding ceremony. However, Tikhon does not accept Katerina’s betrayal, she is his beloved wife, the main thing is that no one knows anything. He beats his wife at the insistence of his mother. So Katerina’s betrayal becomes a symbol of her faith in God, in his blessing. She decides to commit suicide only so as not to change her convictions, her faith.
In N.A. Nekrasov’s poem “Who Lives Well in Rus',” Matryona Korchagina remains faithful to her husband in the most difficult life situations. When her husband Philip is recruited, and she remains pregnant, expecting a child, without a husband, she decides to go to the governor for help, in an effort to find protection. She was lucky: labor began, and the governor’s wife became godmother to her child. She helped in releasing her husband from conscription duty. A rare woman is capable of such self-sacrifice in the name of her beloved husband, of such fidelity to her wedding vow.
Cheating and fidelity are mutually exclusive concepts, but lately no one attaches much importance to them. No one particularly tries to be faithful, no one considers betrayal a terrible sin. The boundaries have been erased. It’s all about human morality, about how to evaluate your own and other people’s actions.
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For me, loyalty is something that every conscientious person should have. We must be true to our beliefs first and foremost. One's own thought makes a person an individual; Having his own position, he stands out from the masses and thereby declares that he will never succumb to the imposition of others. Therefore, being true to yourself is very important.
You also need to be faithful to your family, because who, if not your relatives, can support you and accept you as you are. It is not without reason that our ancestors, in oral folk art, always sang the strength of the family circle, its significance and indivisibility. Therefore, your loved ones deserve that you always support them and never betray them.
In addition, you must always remain faithful to your homeland. We have one country. It has a great history, sung in poems and songs. Throughout this time, it has strived to become a free, independent, powerful country, and our heroes have never been afraid to look the enemy in the face, so that the next generations would not be born under the yoke of the enemy.
If you have to show courage and awaken the blood of heroes in your veins, then you don’t need to be shy about it, but just act. To be loyal to your country is not to betray your parents, heroes, ancestors who look at us from heaven and want us to do well. We must live in such a way that they are not ashamed of us.
Loyalty is a manifestation of consciousness, will, one’s own position and invincibility of spirit. Not everyone can be faithful. Poor, pitiful people have no concept of fidelity, therefore they give rise to lies and betrayals on earth. You need to live in such a way as to become a model for such people and prove to them that only believers have the right to justice and equality.
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Loyalty to one's word, duty, Motherland, love - these feelings cannot be forcibly implanted or developed in a person through moral teachings and lectures; they are born in the very depths of the soul along with the birth of the person himself. And his entire course of thoughts, the course of his life and the nature of his actions will speak of his loyalty more eloquently than any hackneyed pompous phrases.
And if you ask yourself whether it is possible to learn fidelity, the answer will be twofold.
On the one hand, a person’s moral character is a reflection of his nature and thinking.
On the other hand, the foundations of behavior and noble inclinations are laid from childhood in a family where dignity, honesty and firmness of principles are an immutable law.
However, one cannot view fidelity one-sidedly, only as some indispensable postulate of a life position.
After all, fidelity is actually a generous tribute to love, genuine and sincere love.
Only love can engender in a person’s soul immense respect and readiness for self-sacrifice.
And even if we are talking about love for the Motherland or high feelings for another person, the manifestation of fidelity becomes the most important and precious criterion for the degree of these feelings.
And if you take away a person’s love, deceive his faith, then is it possible to demand from him fidelity that would exalt and adorn his appearance?
Total: 191 words
What is loyalty? In my opinion, this word can be understood differently depending on the situation. If we are talking about love relationships, then fidelity is, first of all, steadfastness and constancy in one’s feelings, readiness to be with a loved one in any situation.
Thus, N.A. Nekrasov’s poem “Russian Women” tells about Princess Trubetskoy, who followed her Decembrist husband to Siberia. The governor of Irkutsk dissuades her, describing the difficulties she will face: the harsh climate, the need to live in barracks with convicts, meager and rough food, the upcoming renunciation of all the rights and privileges of a noble person. However, the heroine is not afraid of his words. She is ready to do anything just to be close to her husband, to share both joy and sorrow with him. To all warnings she replies: I am a woman, a wife!
Let my fate be bitter -
I will be faithful to her!
We see that Princess Trubetskoy personifies loyalty and devotion to a loved one.
Word<верность>can also be understood as perseverance in the performance of duties, duty, for example, to the Motherland. The Defender of the Fatherland, soldier or officer, is obliged to remain faithful to the oath and not to betray it, no matter what happens.
An example is Pyotr Grinev, the hero of A.S. Pushkin’s work “The Captain’s Daughter.” When the Belogorsk fortress was captured by Pugachev, all officers were asked to go over to the side of the rebels. If they refused, a tragic fate awaited them - to be hanged. The author shows that, faced with a choice, Pyotr Grinev was ready to give up his life, but remain faithful to the oath. Later, he also refuses Pugachev’s offer, who promised to reward him with high titles: “I am a natural nobleman; I swore allegiance to the Empress: I cannot serve you.” The writer emphasizes that above all for the hero was honor and loyalty to military duty.
Thus, we can come to the conclusion: the word “loyalty” implies devotion to someone or something: a loved one, the Fatherland, duty.
Total: 272 words
LOYALTY and TREASON. 1st direction of the final essay 2017/2018
Unified State Exam 2018. Final essay. Loyalty and betrayal
Quotes and epigraphs
You cannot rely on female fidelity; Happy is he who looks at it indifferently. (A. Pushkin)Adultery brings more evil than good marriage. (Balzac)
Be true to yourself, and then, as surely as night follows day, loyalty to others will follow. (Shakespeare)
In fidelity there is a little laziness, a little fear, a little calculation, a little fatigue, a little passivity, and sometimes even a little fidelity. (Etienne Rey)
Loyalty is the greed of the owner. We would willingly give up many things if it were not for the fear that someone else would pick it up. (O. Wild)
In this world I value only loyalty. Without this, you are nothing and you have no one. In life, this is the only currency that will never depreciate. (V. Vysotsky)
True love helps you endure all hardships. (Friedrich Schiller)
Just loyalty and devotion are forgotten virtues in our time. (Jude Deveraux)
I want to continue to live in a world where loyalty still exists and vows of love are made forever: (Paulo Coelho)
A woman remains faithful in two cases: when she believes that her man is not like anyone else, or when she believes that all men are the same. (Konstantin Melikhan)
Bank called<верность>- a very serious bank. All you have to do is make one deposit on the side and that’s it - your account is closed. (From the film Family Man)
To remain faithful to an unloved person means to betray yourself. (Konstantin Melikhan)
There are feelings that can only be tested by time. And among them is fidelity to love. (Anne and Serge Golon)
Loyalty in love is entirely a matter of physiology; it does not depend at all on our will. Young people want to be faithful - and they are not, old people would like to change, but where can they be? (O. Wild)
A woman's loyalty is tested when her man has nothing. A man's loyalty is tested when he has everything!
Loyalty is a sign of laziness. (O. Wild)
Loyalty is such a rarity and such a value. It is not an innate feeling: to be faithful. This is the solution!
Honesty and loyalty are an expensive gift that you should not expect from cheap people. (B. Shaw)
Cheating with your eyes is the most pleasant way to remain faithful. (Frederick Beigbeder)
When you love, you don’t want to drink any other water except that which you find in your favorite source. Loyalty in this case is a natural thing. In a loveless marriage, after less than two months, the water of the source becomes bitter. (Stendhal)
Treason can be forgiven, but resentment cannot. (A. Akhmatova)
For a man to admit cheating means to forgive himself. (Etienne Rey)
How can you deal with someone you can't trust? If a cart doesn't have an axle, how can you ride it? (Confucius)
Treason begins in the heart before it manifests itself in action. (J. Swift)
Readers can cheat on the writer as much as they want, but the writer must always be faithful to the reader. (W. H. Auden)
Betrayals are most often committed not out of deliberate intention, but out of weakness of character. (F. de La Rochefoucauld)
Trust is a sign of courage, and loyalty is a sign of strength. (Maria Ebner Eschenbach)
If there is trust and no loyalty, there is a family, but if there is loyalty and no trust, there is no family. (Veselin Georgiev)
Quotes and sayings about loyalty to the homeland
The best purpose is to defend your fatherland. (Derzhavin)
To betray the homeland requires extreme baseness of soul. (N. Chernyshevsky)
Everyone’s duty is to love their homeland, to be incorruptible and courageous, to remain faithful to it, even at the cost of their lives. (J.-J. Rousseau)
While we are burning with freedom, While our hearts are alive for honor, My friend, let us dedicate our Souls to our homeland with wonderful impulses! (A. Pushkin)
You cannot forget your homeland. There is no more noble disease than homesickness. (I. Gaman)
Love for the homeland is the first dignity of a civilized person. (N. Bonaparte)
The true courage of enlightened peoples lies in their readiness to sacrifice themselves in the name of their homeland. (G. Hegel)
Motherland: We owe it our strength, inspiration, and joys. (A. Blok)
It is joyful and honorable to die for the fatherland. (Horace)
You can't be a hero while fighting against your homeland. (V. Hugo)
Is it possible to escape from yourself by leaving your homeland? (Horace)
If the holy army shouts:<Кинь ты Русь, живи в раю!>, I will say:<Не надо рая, Дайте родину мою>. (S. A. Yesenin)
True patriotism is not the kind that fusses and swaggers in solemn moments, but the kind that daily and tirelessly cares about the common good and does not boast about it. (A. Graf)
Love for the fatherland is compatible with love for the whole world. (C. Helvetius)
Fatherland and smoke is sweet and pleasant to us. (A. S. Griboyedov)
If your wife cheated on you, then be glad that she cheated on you and not on your fatherland. (A.P. Chekhov)
There is only one crime that cannot be atoned for - treason against one's state. The homeland cannot be changed, it can only be betrayed. A person who truly loves his homeland always knows its value: (E.V. Gushchina)
Cheating on a friend is much more painful than cheating on a loved one, because you expect it less from him. (Etienne Rey)
He who leaves a friend in trouble will himself know the bitterness of troubles.
The friendship of two women is always a conspiracy against the third
Trust is the first condition of friendship; it can be said to serve as the threshold of the temple, while the willingness to make sacrifices is the temple itself. (Jean Labruyère)
The most vile crime is abusing a friend's trust. (Henrik Ibsen).
It's good if the dog is a friend, and not the friend is a dog. (L. Sukhorukov)
To change or not to change is entirely up to you. The main thing is not to cheat on yourself, not to waste money on what is really not needed, and to be able to preserve what is truly valuable. (O. Roy)
Loyalty is not a feeling. This is the solution. (Sergey Yasinsky)
I can't be faithful to a flag if I don't know whose hands it is in. (Peter Ustinov)
Word<верность>did a lot of harm. People have learned to be<верными>a thousand injustices and lawlessness. Meanwhile, they should have been true only to themselves, and then they would have rebelled against deception. (Mark Twain)
He who is true only to himself is always unfaithful to others. (L. Sukhorukov)
He who never changes his views loves himself more than the truth. (J. Joubert)
He who betrays himself loves no one in this world. (Shakespeare)
They are like two sides of the same coin: loyalty and betrayal. These are not even two poles, since the poles can exist together and even complement each other: white and black, yin and yang, winter and summer. It is always possible, if not coexistence, then some kind of halftone.
But where there is betrayal, there is definitely no fidelity. You cannot be faithful (faithful) by 10 percent or 90... And even 99. Loyalty excludes betrayal, just as betrayal destroys the very concept of fidelity. Perhaps for this reason there are so many, sometimes contradictory, quotes about what fidelity is and what betrayal is.
Moreover, fidelity is a broader concept than just fidelity in the relationship between a man and a woman. Loyalty in friendship, loyalty to the Motherland and even the legendary dog loyalty. It seems to me that in all these relationships only the subjects are different, but the essence (basis) of the relationship is always unchanged. Betrayal or betrayal is always baseness. Or not always?
I have already published on the site a selection of quotes about fidelity, which, in general, readers liked. Today I want to expand the topic somewhat and offer for your consideration a selection of quotes about fidelity and betrayal. Why to the court? In my opinion, quotes from even the greatest writers or thinkers cannot be ultimately true. The problem is so complex that its essence is very difficult to explain in a few lines. Quotes are rather the author’s personal attitude towards fidelity and betrayal.
Quotes about fidelity and betrayal
Both in friendship and in love, sooner or later the time comes to settle scores.
D.B. Show
- A noble heart cannot be unfaithful.
O. Balzac
- Loyalty is a quality that people have lost, but dogs have retained.
A. Chekhov
- In this world I value only loyalty. Without this, you are nothing and you have no one. In life, this is the only currency that will never depreciate.
V. Vysotsky
- Betrayals are most often committed not out of deliberate intention, but out of weakness of character.
F. de La Rochefoucauld
- In the demand for fidelity there is the greed of the owner. We would willingly give up many things if it were not for the fear that someone else would pick it up.
O. Wilde
- You cannot rely on female fidelity; Happy is he who looks at it indifferently.
A.S. Pushkin
- Constancy is the ever-present dream of love.
- Female infidelity is the result not of promiscuity, but of narrow-mindedness. It’s just that a woman cannot quickly find another, more sophisticated way to take revenge on a man.
S. Yasinsky
- When you love, you don’t want to drink any other water except that which you find in your favorite source. Loyalty in this case is a natural thing. In a loveless marriage, after less than two months, the water of the source becomes bitter.
Stendhal
- I want to continue to live in a world where loyalty still exists, and vows of love are made forever...
P. Coelho
- Loyalty is a sign of laziness.
O. Wild
- Honesty and loyalty are an expensive gift that you should not expect from cheap people.
B. Shaw
- Without constancy there can be no love, no friendship, no virtue.
D. Addison
- Getting married without tying yourself to anything is a betrayal.
M. Montaigne
- The basis of love, its primary condition, is faith, unconditional loyalty and devotion. True love is not blind; on the contrary, it perhaps opens a person’s eyes for the first time. The slightest betrayal of a loved one, whether it happens sooner or later, is a complete betrayal of everything, from the very beginning, it destroys not only the future, but also the past, because it means that every day of a life full of trust was a lie and the heart was deceived. Anyone who turns out to be unfaithful at least once will never be faithful.
David Scott
- A woman remains faithful in two cases: when she believes that her man is not like anyone else, or when she believes that all men are the same.
K. Melikhan
- Treason can be forgiven, but resentment cannot.
A. Akhmatova
- Treason is a more shameful thing than murder.
Ernst Heine
- Loyalty, which can be maintained only at the cost of great effort, is no better than betrayal.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Half friend is half traitor.
V. Hugo
- The word “loyalty” has done a lot of harm. People have learned to be “faithful” to a thousand injustices and lawlessness. Meanwhile, they should have been true only to themselves, and then they would have rebelled against deception.
M. Twain
- To be faithful is a virtue, to know fidelity is an honor.
Maria Ebner-Eschenbach
- People often cheat for the sake of ambition, but then they will never cheat on ambition for the sake of love.
F. de La Rochefoucauld
- Happiness needs fidelity, but misfortune can do without it.
Seneca
- Only once do we lose life and trust.
Publius Syrus
- When a woman gets tired of trying to change her husband, she begins to tirelessly cheat on this husband.
S. Yasinsky
- Trust is a sign of courage, and loyalty is a sign of strength.
Maria Ebner Eschenbach
- Loyalty, which can be maintained only at the cost of great effort, is no better than betrayal.
F. de La Rochefoucauld
- A person devoted to you is a friend; betrayed by you is an enemy.
A. Nadanyan
- A woman gets more pleasure from cheating than a man: for him it’s not God knows what event, but for her cheating always means revenge, or passion, or sin.
E. Ray
- Be faithful to those who are faithful to you.
Plato
- Traitors betray themselves first of all.
Plutarch
- Cheating on a friend is a crime. No excuse, no forgiveness.
Lope de Vega
- To remain faithful to an unloved person means to betray yourself.
