Expedience Quotes

#1. The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Edmund Burke

#2. The daughter is the goddess, separately or together, of Infatuation, Mischief, Delusion and Blind Folly, rendering her victims "incapable of rational choice" and blind to distinctions of morality and expedience.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#3. When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

Lao-Tzu

#4. Real evil wasn't about bending the law to suit justice: evil was acting out of small, intensely personal expedience and losing sight of the bigger picture so often that you never got it back again.

Karen Traviss

#5. Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things.

Thomas Paine

#6. Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

Abbie Hoffman

#7. It would be very difficult, if not altogether impossible, to establish any principle upon which the justice or expedience of capital punishment could be founded in a society glorying in its civilization.

Karl Marx

#8. Was it ever right to sacrifice one's truth for expedience?

Sue Monk Kidd

#9. I know how the world works. Business decisions are not made for the good of the people, but for the sake of profit, loyalty and expedience.

Christopher Fowler

#10. Justice, not expedience, must be the guiding light. The orator must fix his eye on the polestar of justice, and plough straight thither. The moment he glances toward expediency, he falls from his high estate.

John Peter Altgeld

#11. Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake.

Barack Obama

#12. I give dignity second place to expedience.

Jack Vance

#13. There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.

William Lloyd Garrison

#14. Libertarianism is supposed to be all about principles, but what it's really about is political expedience. It's basically a corporate front, masked as a philosophy.

Jane Mayer

#15. Anonymity is a universal convention of the blogosphere, and the wicked expedience is that you can speak without consequences.

Lee Siegel

#16. It is just as often the case, however, that men are violent solely from expedience, because they believe in no higher law than the demands of the moment,

David Bentley Hart

#17. If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. We cannot afford an America where expedience tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made with an eye only on the present.

Stewart Udall

#18. There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

Vladimir Lenin

#19. In the cause of expedience and the quest for information, man has always been willing to trump his laws and betray his beliefs to legitimize the torture of those who do not share them.

Mark Allen Smith

#20. I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal.

Maria Mitchell

#21. My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor.

James Badge Dale

#22. It matters more how one gives than what one gives.

Pierre Corneille

#23. What was the first thing that came to your mind when you met Tree?" She blew into her half-empty beer bottle and awaited his answer. It didn't take him long. "That she was stunning . . . and one day I'd possess her heart." The

Jessica Topper

#24. Don't be afraid; I'll keep looking at you for ever and ever, without a flutter of my eyelids, and you'll live in my gaze like a mote in a sunbeam.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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beautiful than ever. How do you manage it?
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fectly charming people like yourself.

Oscar Wilde