(36 quotes found)
“Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.”
Henry David Thoreau
“But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.”
Erwin Rommel
“Where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency.”
James Webb
“There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything. When actions are judged, they go before the bar of God, where Mom and the Flag closely flank His presence.”
Jonathan Raban
“Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.”
Roy Hattersley
“Custom adapts itself to expediency”
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
“Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons - including all the assassins - entertain grave misgivings”
Ambrose Bierce
“Expediency is important here. This needs to be resolved quickly. And I believe it will be resolved. It's got everybody's attention now.”
Dan Goodwin
“Political expediency would argue for an increase in output, while commercial logic would argue that the pressure should be resisted when OPEC meets next week.”
Kevin Norrish
