A good and faithful judge prefers what is right to what is expedient.
But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
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.
Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
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.
It is the business of a statesman to judge of the expediency of different schemes of economy, and by degrees to model the minds of his subjects so as to induce them from the allurement of private interest to concur in the execution of his plan.
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
Courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
More often there`s a compromise between ethics and expediency.
Where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency.
Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages.Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow, we cannot afford to build on the shifting sands.
When private virtue is hazarded on the perilous cast of expediency, the pillars of the republic, however apparent their stability, are infected with decay at the very centre.
Many things lawful are not expedient, but nothing can be truly expedient which is unlawful or sinful.
Modern man has developed a kind of Gallup-poll mentality, relying on quantity instead of quality and yielding to expediency instead of building a new faith.
I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.
We are disappointed that after hearing from so many Internet stakeholders about why this proposal is anti-competitive, the ICANN board still approved a known bad deal. The long-term interests of the entire Internet community must prevail over short-term expediency for a few.
MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.
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.
You can\'t learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
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.
Private and public life are subject to the same rules-- truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better then policy or tact or expediency or other words that were devised to conceal a deviation from a straight line.
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