Inexpedient Quotes
9 quotes by 5 authors
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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
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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
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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
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Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests.
— Ambrose Bierce
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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
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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
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Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.
— Henry David Thoreau
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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
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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: