Inexpedient Quotes

9 quotes by 5 authors

• In nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the existence of the… — Konrad Lorenz
• Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against… — Henry David Thoreau
• Immoral: Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be… — Ambrose Bierce
• Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests. — Ambrose Bierce
• Obama's immigration legacy will be the juxtaposition of his serial insistence that he was not a king or an emperor, and could not contravene the… — Victor Davis Hanson
• IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to… — Ambrose Bierce
• Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. — Henry David Thoreau
• 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
• Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has… — Aldo Leopold

Who Wrote These Inexpedient Quotes

5 authors contributed a total of 9 Inexpedient Quotes as follows:

• 3 Inexpedient Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
• 3 Inexpedient Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
• 1 Inexpedient Quote by Konrad Lorenz
• 1 Inexpedient Quote by Victor Davis Hanson
• 1 Inexpedient Quote by Aldo Leopold