Expedience Quotes

There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience. ~ William Lloyd Garrison

I give dignity second place to expedience. ~ Jack Vance

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law. ~ Abbie Hoffman

Anonymity is a universal convention of the blogosphere, and the wicked expedience is that you can speak without consequences. ~ Lee Siegel

In the cause of expedience and the quest for information, man has always been willing to trump his laws and betray his beliefs to legitimize the torture of those who do not share them. ~ Mark Allen Smith

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

Justice, not expedience, must be the guiding light. The orator must fix his eye on the polestar of justice, and plough straight thither. The moment he glances toward expediency, he falls from his high estate. ~ John Peter Altgeld

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress. ~ Quentin Crisp

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. ~ Lao-Tzu

Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things. ~ Thomas Paine

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. ~ Edmund Burke

It would be very difficult, if not altogether impossible, to establish any principle upon which the justice or expedience of capital punishment could be founded in a society glorying in its civilization. ~ Karl Marx

Was it ever right to sacrifice one's truth for expedience? ~ Sue Monk Kidd

It is just as often the case, however, that men are violent solely from expedience, because they believe in no higher law than the demands of the moment, ~ David Bentley Hart

Real evil wasn't about bending the law to suit justice: evil was acting out of small, intensely personal expedience and losing sight of the bigger picture so often that you never got it back again. ~ Karen Traviss

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel. ~ Vladimir Lenin