Definition of Expediency

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Expediency

The quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to self-interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability; -- sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude.

Expedition; haste; dispatch.

An expedition; enterprise; adventure.

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Expediency Quotations

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

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

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

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

Party honesty is party expediency.
Grover Cleveland

Custom adapts itself to expediency.
Tacitus

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

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

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

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

Expediency Translations

expediency in French is convenance
expediency in Norwegian is hensiktsmessighet
expediency in Spanish is oportunidad

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