Expediency Quotes

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

Policy sits above conscience.

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

Custom adapts itself to expediency.

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

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

Expediency often silences justice.

It is not expedient or wise to examine our friends too closely; few persons are raised in our esteem by a close examination.

Judgment without character is expediency... or worse.

Where there are few expectations, expediency wins.

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

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

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