“ Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow. ”
- Roy Hattersley- Copy
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“ No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
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“ MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency. It is sayd there be a raunge of mountaynes in the Easte, on one syde of the which certayn conducts are immorall, yet on the other syde they are holden in good esteeme; wherebye the mountayneer is much conveenyenced, for it is given to him to goe downe eyther way and act as it shall suite his moode, withouten offence… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility. ”
- Erwin Rommel- Copy
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“ The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
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“ The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed. ”
- Epicurus- Copy
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“ Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right? ”
- William Morley Punshon- Copy
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“ You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
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“ Principle, particularly moral principle, can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true. And that is as important in business as it is in the classroom. ”
- Edward R. Lyman- Copy
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“ Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right. ”
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything. When actions are judged, they go before the bar of God, where Mom and the Flag closely flank His presence. ”
- Jonathan Raban- Copy
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