Expediency Quotes

• It is a very laborious process, but we feel accuracy is more important than expediency. I'm not going to apologize for taking our time and making sure we get it right.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Important
  • Process
  • Laborious

• Custom adapts itself to expediency.

  

  Tacitus
  • Custom
  • Itself
  • Expediency

• I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Ideology
  • Speaking
  • Policies

• Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • May
  • Argument
  • Balanced

• My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Political
  • Kind
  • Reason

• Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and ... but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

  

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  • Truth
  • Curiosity
  • Duty

• Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Lawful
  • Expediency

• Expediency has marked the road down which I have walked to dubious success, and always the pirate, the rebel, has shouted his advice over my shoulder while the faintest of lights pointed out a dim way.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Success
  • Dubious
  • Road down

• Expediency often silences justice.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Justice
  • Silence
  • Expediency

• All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Change
  • Religions
  • Expediency

• “In the long run principles are just more important than expediency.”

  

  Alex Ferguson
  • Important
  • Principles
  • Expediency