Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced. — Benjamin Cardozo 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
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
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
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
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
The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel 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
Experience (has) long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common… — Thomas Jefferson 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
The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating… — George Washington Copy Share Image
America is governed by rules of law, and those are not ones that the President of the United States or anybody else… — Barack Obama 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
I have found in my experience that expediency, whether it is practical or not, is an unreliable guide for behavior. Human behavior… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, ‘delusions’ are always officially defined. We do not… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
If any one of us has had an ambition higher than that of making money; a motive better than that of expediency;… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
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
Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world.… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn’t always… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The revelation of the secret of water will put an end to all manner of speculation or expediency and their excrescences, to… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
Where it is in his own interest, every organism may reasonably be expected to aid his fellows. Where he has no alternative,… — Michael Ghiselin 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
When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only by the apparent interest of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
I am pro-Israeli, not because of political expediency, but because I believe Israel is the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Expediency therefore concurs with Nature in stamping the seal of its approval upon Regularity of conformation. — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains. — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
