Expediency Quote by Virgilia Peterson Download Open image “Perhaps it is the expediency in the political eye that blinds it.” — Virgilia Peterson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Expediency Eye Political Politics
A lot of times in politics you have people look you in the eye and tell you what's not on their mind. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
These days in particular it seems not only unavoidable but even irresponsible to not acknowledge politics in some way. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Like all born politicians, their eye was for the main chance rather than for the argument, and they found it easier to forswear a… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
It's one of the reasons [professional politicians] why people's confidence in the electoral system has declined so much. They have all become shadowy political… — Geoffrey Howe Copy Share Image
Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts. — Jim Leach Copy Share Image
I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate. — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
Political ignorance helps explain Americans' perpetual disappointment with politicians generally, and presidents especially, to whom voters unrealistically attribute abilities to control events. — George Will Copy Share Image
I think people are tired of politicians trying to poke each other in the eye. — Mark Warner Copy Share Image
That is what is happening in America. People see things, but still they've just completely lost the ability to think critically. — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it… — Virgilia Peterson Copy Share Image
Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces, their successes… — Virgilia Peterson Copy Share Image
Were marriage no more than a convenient screen for sexuality, some less cumbersome and costly protection must have been found by this time to… — Virgilia Peterson Copy Share Image
However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of the heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there… — Virgilia Peterson Copy Share Image
Not only are there as many conflicting truths as there are people to claim them; there are equally multitudinous and conflicting truths within the… — Virgilia Peterson Copy Share Image
In Reno, there is always a bull market, never a bear market, for the stocks and bonds of happiness. — Virgilia Peterson Copy Share Image
Love by its presence, like God by His, makes everything not necessarily clear or right or even good, but acceptable. Whereas in its absence,… — Virgilia Peterson Copy Share Image
A lady, that is an enlightened, cultivated, liberal lady - the only kind to be in a time of increasing classlessness - could espouse… — Virgilia Peterson Copy Share Image
Christian obligation cannot be made to accord with a law of expediency. The Christian's maxims are, Do right because you are bound to do… — Francis Landey Patton Copy Share Image
A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I believe this nation hungers for a spiritual revival; hungers to once again see honor placed above political expediency; to see government once again… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
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