#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. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

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The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency. ↗

— Peter Singer

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Custom adapts itself to expediency. ↗

— Tacitus

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But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility. ↗

— Erwin Rommel

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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow. ↗

— Roy Hattersley

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Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down. ↗

— Charles Adams

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The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those. ↗

— Eric Cantor

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