But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.
Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.
Policy sits above conscience.
Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand
Expediency often silences justice.
Those individuals who give moral considerations a much greater weight than considerations of expediency represent a comparatively small minority, five percent of the people perhaps. But, In spite of their numerical inferiority, they play a major role in our society because theirs is the voice of the conscience of society.
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.
Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.
Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.
Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.
The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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.
In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso would be a Christian must also be a a nonconformist. Any Christian who blindly accepts the opinions of the majority and in fear and timidity follows a path of expediency and social approval is a mental and spiritual slave.
Custom adapts itself to expediency.
Party honesty is party expediency.
In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.
Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
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.
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