Expediency Quotes

64 quotes by 58 authors

We believe in a moral code. Communism denies innate right or wrong. As W. Cleon Skousen has said in his timely book, The Naked Communist:… — Ezra Taft Benson
Ecology movements, futurism, feminism, urbanism, protest and disarmament, personal individuation cannot alone save the world from the catastrophe inherent in our very idea of the… — James Hillman
What the hell is the sense of trying to hold the Democratic party together, if it's really a party of expediency, something that's put together… — Hunter S. Thompson
moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency. — Ambrose Bierce
Where there are few expectations, expediency wins. — Robert Genn
If we continue to approach problems from the perspective of temporary expediency, future generations will face tremendous difficulties. — Dalai Lama
Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency. — Pope Francis
An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety. — Gary Hamel
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. — W. Somerset Maugham
But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility. — Erwin Rommel
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,… — Charles Schumer
More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency. — Peter Singer
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. — Henry David Thoreau
I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, â€˜delusionsâ€™ are always officially defined. We do not have to worry… — Thomas Pynchon
Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand,… — Jeffrey Eugenides
What he's really saying is: Please be a human being. With a life so full of rules and regiments, it's so easy to forget that's… — Neal Shusterman
There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on… — Joseph Conrad
I am a libertarian with a small 'l' and a Republican with a capital 'R'. And I am a Republican with a capital 'R' on… — Milton Friedman
Women have been driven mad, â€œgaslightedâ€, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience.… — Adrienne Rich
The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern… — Max Weber

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