Zitat des Tages über Zweckmäßigkeit / Expediency:
Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.
I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.
Whether it was the Alaskan pipeline disaster or the Texas City refinery fire where 15 people died, time after time it's been shown that BP chooses expediency over safety.
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.
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.
The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.
An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.
Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.
The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those.
Party honesty is party expediency.
Custom adapts itself to expediency.
The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
