Expediency Quotes

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
Lao Tzu

Truth, Lost, Beginning

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
Henry David Thoreau

Truth, Lawyer, Consistent

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
W. Somerset Maugham

Useful, Principle, Sacrificed

More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.
Peter Singer

Between, Often, Compromise

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
Quentin Crisp

Long, Law, Simply

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
Erwin Rommel

Courage, Stupidity, Against

Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.
Charles Schumer

Life, Love, Path

Custom adapts itself to expediency.
Tacitus

Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.
Charles Adams

Greed, Down, High

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

Religion, Political, Hand

Party honesty is party expediency.
Grover Cleveland

The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those.
Eric Cantor

Political, Together, Him

Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.
Pope Francis

Truth, Young, Attracted

I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.
Harold Ford

Political, Stop, Party

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.
Roy Hattersley

Morality, Cynics, Allow

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