Expedient Quotes

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Without question, the true goal of some in Congress is to create a system of socialized medicine. It's politically expedient to slap a 'patients' rights'… — Ron Paul
Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The most sure, but at the same time the most difficult expedient to mend the morals of the people, is a perfect system of education. — Catherine the Great
It is expedient to have acquaintance with those who have looked into the world, who know men, understand business, and can give you good intelligence… — George Horne
It may happen that the enemies of Islam may consider it expedient not to take any action against Islam, if Islam leaves them alone in… — Sayyid Qutb
The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it by love rather… — Joseph Rotblat
The 'key-log' which must be moved to release the evolutionary process for an ethic is simply this: quit thinking about decent land-use as solely an… — Land ethic
Wherefore, men are free according to the flesh; and all things are given them which are expedient unto man. And they are free to choose… — Robert D. Hales
I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected. — Luis Fortuno
All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that… — John Stuart Mill
For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing… — John Calvin
Make your decision for what is right not expedient, and wash your mind of all compromise. — B. J. Palmer
The time has already come when each country needs a considered national policy about what size of population, whether larger or smaller than at present… — John Maynard Keynes
But they don't use law-they use law for their interests. They don't go by law, international, federal, local-nothing! They go by whatever is expedient to… — Malcolm X
We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order. — Adolf Hitler
It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a… — Plato
Actually, the decision was not only expedient but necessary. The severity of this summary justice showed the world that we would continue to fight mercilessly,… — Leon Trotsky
Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, the state's first instinct is that of self-preservati on. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own… — Albert J. Nock
Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. — Henry David Thoreau
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary. — Seneca the Younger

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