12 Quotes on Expediency

• 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.

  Author: Lao Tzu

• The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• Custom adapts itself to expediency.

  Author: Tacitus

• More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.

  Author: Peter Singer

• But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

  Author: Erwin Rommel

• The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

  Author: W. Maugham

• Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

  Author: Roy Hattersley

• Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.

  Author: Friedrich Durrenmatt

• The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

  Author: Quentin Crisp

• Party honesty is party expediency.

  Author: Grover Cleveland

• The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those.

  Author: Eric Cantor

• Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.

  Author: Charles Adams

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