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Quotes About Expedience

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
Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things. When
~ Thomas Paine
Theater is like the leopards, Clem told Diggs. It disrupts the status quo, she tried. Until its ideas bring about lasting change by getting incorporated in society. Maybe. Diggs lubricated her skepticism with diplomacy. She's good at that. But if we're talking expedience, law has it all over art, bambina.
~ Leah Hager Cohen
expedience could not take precedence over the pursuit of justice.
~ Jessica Shattuck
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
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
I give dignity second place to expedience.
~ Jack Vance