1.
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
W. Somerset Maugham
3.
More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.
Peter Singer
4.
Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.
Roy Hattersley
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
Tacitus
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Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?
William Morley Punshon
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It is not expedient or wise to examine our friends too closely;
few persons are raised in our esteem by a close examination.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Where there are few expectations, expediency wins.
Robert Genn
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Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Expediency therefore concurs with Nature in stamping the seal of its approval upon Regularity of conformation.
Edwin A. Abbott
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Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.
Richard Whately