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“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
“All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have. been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn.”
John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism“No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.”
Theodore Roosevelt“The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.”
Henry David Thoreau“Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.”
Friedrich Durrenmatt“Courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity or if it is insisted upon by a commander irresponsibility.”
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel“But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.”
Erwin Rommel, The Rommel Papers“It is a rather lamentable fact that few can call upon courage with the expediency they can fear.”
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