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There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.
— William Shenstone
Protection is not a principle but an expedient
— Benjamin Disraeli
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
I found it harder and harder to stick to what was right, when what was expedient made better sense.
— Charlaine Harris
doing nothing is more expedient than doing something. -
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.
— Benjamin Disraeli
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
— Seneca The Younger
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking.
— Thomas A. Edison
Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
— Edward Abbey
[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
— George Bernard Shaw
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
— Joseph Conrad
But facts were facts, and people didn't get to turn Amy into everyone's beloved best friend just because it was emotionally expedient.
— Gillian Flynn
I will not stagger from expedient to expedient.
— Margaret Thatcher
My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?
— Dexter Scott King
Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.
— Simone De Beauvoir
It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.
— Plato
I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politically expedient. I want to do what's right.
— Ben Carson
I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected.
— Luis Fortuno
The most sure, but at the same time the most difficult expedient to mend the morals of the people, is a perfect system of education.
— Catherine The Great
If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
— Katharine Butler Hathaway
Active, pulsing love took a secondary position to expedient need and the narcoleptic inertia of the day-to-day.
— Craig Lancaster
Make your decision for what is right not expedient, and wash your mind of all compromise.
— B. J. Palmer
Accusing a politician of being politically expedient is like accusing water of being wet or circles for being round.
— Greg Gutfeld
Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
— James Russell Lowell
Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient not to remember.
— Radclyffe Hall
When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.
— John Tillotson
It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.
— Publilius Syrus
In nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the existence of the species.
— Konrad Lorenz
Information is controlled because the free flow of truth is not always expedient for those wishing to maintain control.
— Bryant McGill
Some think of Islam as an expedient jobs program that moves the female half of the population out of the way.
— William Langewiesche
We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.
— Andre Gide
Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.
— William E. Gladstone
God will not allow you to add the words "next time" to now faith.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.
— Abraham Lincoln
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
— Richard Dawkins
It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist.
— Ovid