Expedient Quotes

101 quotes by 91 authors

The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and… — George Santayana
I wanted to say something different: the pictures are also a leave-taking, in several respects. Factually: these specific persons are dead; as a general statement,… — Gerhard Richter
It is provided by the Constitution that the President shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union… — Chester A. Arthur
The greenhouse crisis is the bill coming due for the Industrial Revolution. It's not an accident. It's the logical outcome of our world view -… — Jeremy Rifkin
Accusing a politician of being politically expedient is like accusing water of being wet or circles for being round. — Greg Gutfeld
It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know. — Publilius Syrus
I have learned that the cost of everything from a royal suite to a bottle of soda water can be halved by the simple expedient… — Robert Byron
The great presidents never forget the principle of the republic and seek to preserve and enhance them â€“ in the long runâ€“ without undermining the… — George Friedman
Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas. — William E. Gladstone
With regard to Banks, they have taken too deep and too wide a root in social transactions, to be got rid of altogether, if that… — James Madison
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. — Joseph Conrad
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. — Richard Dawkins
Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. — Aldo Leopold
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. — James Russell Lowell
It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were… — Sandra Day O'Connor
If my favorite, most comfortable place is by our fireplace in cold weather, expedient places are on an airplane, in a waiting room or even… — Joyce Carol Oates
A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an… — Frank Lloyd Wright
On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and… — Henry David Thoreau
[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. — George Bernard Shaw

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