Zitat des Tages über Zweckmäßig / Expedient:
Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.
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.
A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected.
Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.
You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law; as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us.
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
Why do we have a brain in the first place? Not to write books, articles, or plays; not to do science or play music. Brains develop because they are an expedient way of managing life in a body.
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.
If my favorite, most comfortable place is by our fireplace in cold weather, expedient places are on an airplane, in a waiting room or even waiting in line; frequently these days, while on the phone having been 'put on hold.'
It is provided by the Constitution that the President shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.
