Top 114 Expediency Quotes & Sayings

An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.

A Constitution is not meant to be a flexible arrangement which evolves from one decade to another depending on political expediency.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

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.

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

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.

[Law] is one part justice to nine parts expediency. Who needs it.

Neither tolerance nor intolerance is grounded in science and reason, but they are themselves acts of faith grounded in social custom and the politics of expediency and power.

The United States Senate is already chock full of career politicians and insiders who fall in line for political expediency and refuse to stand up and speak out for the American people.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.

Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.

... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

As a rule, [populism] is done for the sake of political expediency by those who do not care about the consequences, who do not think even one step ahead, who do not want to think and do not intend to honour their commitments.

The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.

A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

I am pro-Israeli, not because of political expediency, but because I believe Israel is the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are responsible for the growth of ISIS because they precipitously withdrew from Iraq in 2011 against the advice of every single general and for political expediency.

What the hell is the sense of trying to hold the Democratic party together, if it's really a party of expediency, something that's put together every four years?

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

Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.

A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Perhaps it is the expediency in the political eye that blinds it.

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

Expediency often silences justice.

I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.

Expediency therefore concurs with Nature in stamping the seal of its approval upon Regularity of conformation.

I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.

What he's really saying is: Please be a human being. With a life so full of rules and regiments, it's so easy to forget that's what they are. She knows—she sees—how often compassion takes a back seat to expediency.

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

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

If we continue to approach problems from the perspective of temporary expediency, future generations will face tremendous difficulties.

All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.

Party honesty is party expediency.

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand

It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.

Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect him from being injured by them.

Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity.

My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency.

Whether it was the Alaskan pipeline disaster or the Texas City refinery fire where 15 people died, time after time it's been shown that BP chooses expediency over safety.

Where there are few expectations, expediency wins.

Custom adapts itself to expediency.

Judgment without character is expediency... or worse.

To deny a genocide because of convenience and expediency having to do with an illegal war or occupation in Iraq to me, is double hypocritical.

There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of "expediency." There is no such thing as sliding up- hill.In morals the only sliders are backsliders.

When it comes to politics and elections, far too many Christians spend more time appealing to family, history and tradition, culture, racial expediency, and personal preference than they do to what the Bible teaches.

Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.

Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?

We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.

Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.

Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can; when we cannot do all we would wish.

Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong. However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man's perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency; that man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.

Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.

There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle.

Don't give up on your ideals. Don't compromise. Don't turn to expediency. And for heaven's sake . . . don't get cynical.

Integrity, a standard of personal morality and ethics, is not relative to the situation you happen to find yourself in and doesn't sell out to expediency. Its short supply is getting shorter - but without it, leadership is a facade.