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
... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Don't give up on your ideals. Don't compromise. Don't turn to expediency. And for heaven's sake . . . don't get cynical. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
What he's really saying is: Please be a human being. With a life so full of rules and regiments, it's so easy… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Metaphor is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
I am a libertarian with a small 'l' and a Republican with a capital 'R'. And I am a Republican with a… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
As a rule, [populism] is done for the sake of political expediency by those who do not care about the consequences, who… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of "expediency." There is no such thing as sliding… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When it comes to politics and elections, far too many Christians spend more time appealing to family, history and tradition, culture, racial… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
I lay very little stress either upon asking or giving advice. Generally speaking, they who ask advice know what they wish to… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
“Experience has taught me," said Peter (...) "that no situation finds Bunter unprepared. That he should have procured The Times this morning… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Immoral: Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
One of the great challenges you will face is that a part of the world, and some in it, do not have… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
Statesmen and legislators, standing so completely within the institution, never distinctly and nakedly behold it. They speak of moving society, but they… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To terrorize a man into believing in God is never the work of God, but the work of human expediency. If we… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell… — Eric Cantor Copy Share Image
“Yet isn't it all—all of it, every single episode and detail of the Clinton saga—exactly like that? And isn't some of it… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I must conclude that Conscience, if that be the name of it, was not given us for no purpose, or for a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Justice, not expedience, must be the guiding light. The orator must fix his eye on the polestar of justice, and plough straight… — John Peter Altgeld Copy Share Image
Integrity, a standard of personal morality and ethics, is not relative to the situation you happen to find yourself in and doesn't… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
Once we start worrying too often or too deeply about what certain individuals and what certain groups think about us, then we… — Otis Chandler Copy Share Image
An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The things a man believes most profoundly are rarely on the surface of his mind or tongue. Newly acquired notions, decisions based… — Eric Johnston Copy Share Image
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