A Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests.

Ambrose Bierce

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Advance Calculated Interests

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Ambrose Bierce
American - Journalist
June 24, 1842 - 1914

Nothing can be better calculated to advance our interests and character than the establishment of a liberal and disinterested policy, enlightened by patriotism and guided by wisdom.

Sam Houston

IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral.

Ambrose Bierce

The ongoing war in Afghanistan is being imposed on us, and Afghans are being sacrificed in it for someone else's interests. We are not blocking the interests of the United States or other major powers. But we are demanding that if you consider Afghanistan the place from which to advance your interests, then you should also pay attention to Afghanistan's interests.

Hamid Karzai

Citizens United provided unprecedented political weaponry to big special interests. My personal view was it was calculated to do that.

Sheldon Whitehouse

Immoral: Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral. If mans notions of right and wrong have any other basis than this of expediency; if they originated, or could have originated, in any other way; if actions have in themselves a moral character apart from and nowise dependent on, their consequences-then all philosophy is a lie and reason a disorder of the mind.

Ambrose Bierce

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.

John Bolton

The rushed existence into which industrialized, commercialized man has precipitated himself is actually a good example of an inexpedient development caused entirely by competition between members of the same species. Human beings of today are attacked by so-called manager diseases, high blood pressure, renal atrophy, gastric ulcers, and torturing neuroses: they succumb to barbarism because they have no more time for cultural interests.

Konrad Lorenz

I have no regrets whatsoever that I have acted in a way to advance my country's interests

Susan Rice

With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.

Thomas Jefferson

Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half

Jan Timman

I've never been reckless - it's always calculated. I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated.

Drake

Our task will be to advance Kenya's interests and ensure they are well served.

Mwai Kibaki

Businessmen are always trying to advance their business interests, but they are not running for Prime Minister.

Peter Costello

Diversified interests must exist in every community, and that system which is best calculated to promote the general interest is the one which should be adopted and adhered to with fidelity.

Sam Houston

I hold the value of life is to improve one's condition. Whatever is calculated to advance the condition of the honest, struggling laboring man, so far as my judgment will enable me to judge of a correct thing, I am for that thing.