Quotes by Expediency Expediency therefore concurs with Nature in stamping the seal of its approval upon Regularity of conformation. Edwin A. Abbott expediencyregularityapproval 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 expediencyexaminationwise Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient. Mahatma Gandhi expediencyhighestreligion More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency. Peter Singer expediencyethicscompromise 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 expediencybeing-truesacrifice Where there are few expectations, expediency wins. Robert Genn expediencyexpectationswinning Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow. Roy Hattersley expediencymoralitypregnancy Expediency often silences justice. Seneca the Younger expediencysilencejustice Custom adapts itself to expediency. Tacitus expediencycustomshabit The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. W. Somerset Maugham expediencyuseful-thingsprinciples Judgment without character is expediency... or worse. Warren G. Bennis expediencyjudgmentcharacter Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right? William Morley Punshon expediencycowardicesafe Policy sits above conscience. William Shakespeare expediencypolicyconscience
