Words matter. These are the best Expediency Quotes from famous people such as Friedrich Durrenmatt, Max Weber, Henry David Thoreau, Quentin Crisp, Lao Tzu, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.
The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.
The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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.
Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.
Judgments that give an impression that we can disregard the Constitution for political expediency, or to solve what we regard as current problems, set a dangerous precedence which will make it difficult to govern in future or to make ordinary citizens to abide by the Constitution.
A Constitution is not meant to be a flexible arrangement which evolves from one decade to another depending on political expediency.
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
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.
Custom adapts itself to expediency.
On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But Conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’
Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.
More often there’s a compromise between ethics and expediency.
If you choose to put political expediency and politics ahead of the men and women on the ground, for that, you’ll have to answer to yourself. I find it morally reprehensible.
An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right – regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.
