Expedient Quotes

“On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right?There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.”

“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.”

“Relish what is good and expedient.”

“Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.”

“Information is controlled because the free flow of truth is not always expedient for those wishing to maintain control.”

“Some think of Islam as an expedient jobs program that moves the female half of the population out of the way.”

“He was a consummate politician-- which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.”

“[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. ”

“The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.”

“If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.”