Perhaps it is the expediency in the political eye that blinds it. — Virgilia Peterson Copy Share Image
Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
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
If we continue to approach problems from the perspective of temporary expediency, future generations will face tremendous difficulties. — Dalai Lama 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
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. — Henry David Thoreau 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
moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party… — Harold Ford, Jr Copy Share Image
Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
What the hell is the sense of trying to hold the Democratic party together, if it's really a party of expediency, something… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Neither tolerance nor intolerance is grounded in science and reason, but they are themselves acts of faith grounded in social custom and… — John Money Copy Share Image
Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world… — Robert E. Lee 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
Ecology movements, futurism, feminism, urbanism, protest and disarmament, personal individuation cannot alone save the world from the catastrophe inherent in our very… — James Hillman 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
Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages… — Dwight D. Eisenhower 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
This is not only a matter of relations between Russia and the United States. In my view, any restrictions in the economic… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Those individuals who give moral considerations a much greater weight than considerations of expediency represent a comparatively small minority, five percent of… — Leo Szilard Copy Share Image
While the machinery of law enforcement and indeed the nature of crime itself have changed dramatically since the Fourth Amendment became part… — William J. Brennan 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
Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. — W. Somerset Maugham 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
God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency. — Wendell Phillips 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
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
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