Christian obligation cannot be made to accord with a law of expediency. The Christian's maxims are, Do right because you are bound… — Francis Landey Patton Copy Share Image
A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I believe this nation hungers for a spiritual revival; hungers to once again see honor placed above political expediency; to see government… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It's time for the wealthy to pay their fair share before the middle class becomes the forgotten class.- And it's time for… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is the expediency in the political eye that blinds it. — Virgilia Peterson Copy Share Image
Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our contention is not for mere toleration, but for absolute liberty. There is a wide difference between toleration and liberty. Toleration implies… — George W Truett Copy Share Image
Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right? — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are responsible for the growth of ISIS because they precipitously withdrew from Iraq in 2011 against the… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
I cannot too greatly emphasize the importance and value of Bible study - more important than ever before in these days of… — John Wanamaker Copy Share Image
To deny a genocide because of convenience and expediency having to do with an illegal war or occupation in Iraq to me,… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
