Quotes by Expediency Expediency therefore concurs with Nature in stamping the seal of its approval upon Regularity of conformation. Edwin A. Abbott expediency regularity approval It is not expedient or wise to examine our friends too closely; few persons are raised in our esteem by a close examination. Francois de La Rochefoucauld expediency examination wise Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient. Mahatma Gandhi expediency highest religion More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency. Peter Singer expediency ethics compromise 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 expediency being-true sacrifice Where there are few expectations, expediency wins. Robert Genn expediency expectations winning Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow. Roy Hattersley expediency morality pregnancy Expediency often silences justice. Seneca the Younger expediency silence justice Custom adapts itself to expediency. Tacitus expediency customs habit The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. W. Somerset Maugham expediency useful-things principles Judgment without character is expediency... or worse. Warren G. Bennis expediency judgment character Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right? William Morley Punshon expediency cowardice safe Policy sits above conscience. William Shakespeare expediency policy conscience