Quotes with expediency

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  • Henry David Thoreau The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel 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.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Tacitus Custom adapts itself to expediency.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Roy Hattersley Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.
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  • Theodore Roosevelt No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Quentin Crisp The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Jonathan Raban 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.
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  • James Russell Lowell 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.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Lao-Tzu 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
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • William Somerset Maugham You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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