...a commitment to passion is not a substitute for commitment to a human being. In our culture we have these two feelings completely confused. We are all committed to finding passion, we are all committed to being eternally "in love"; and we imagine that this is the same thing as being committed to a person. But the passion fades; the passion migrates to someone else we feel attracted to. If we are committed only to follow where passion leads, then there can be no true loyalty to an individual person.
Loyalty and commitment are archetypes in our human structure. They are as necessary to us as food and air. It is out of this profound human need for stable, loyal, and enduring relationships that the morality of Ogrin, the morality of commitment, grows.