Expedient Quotes
The easy option, and what it costs you.
Expedient gets used almost as a warning here — one quote claims there's no shortcut a person won't reach for rather than actually sit down and think something through, another admits that letting fear of consequence guide you leaves a life that's safe, expedient, and thin.
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected.
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If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
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.'
Army Quotes
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
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...
I must repeat what I asserted formerly, that unless some happy expedient can be fallen upon to induce the seamen to enter into the service for a longer term than twelve months, it will never be possible to bring them...
Measures of policy are necessarily controlled by circumstances; and, consequently, what may be wise and expedient under certain circumstances might be eminently unwise and impolitic under different circumstances. To persist in acting in the same way under circumstances essentially different...
I think that the president of Iran has the authority wherever which - where - wherever the national interests of the country are involved and, when it is necessary and expedient and required to speak and talk with others in...
Blind Quotes
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.
I put myself and my company at the C.I.A.'s disposal for some very risky missions. But when it became politically expedient to do so, someone threw me under the bus.
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.
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.
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.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Do any quotes connect being expedient to fear?
Is there a lighter or more literal use of 'expedient' in this set?
There's a lighter version too, expedient simply meaning wherever you happen to be — an airplane, a waiting room, on hold on the phone. Convenience, this set suggests, is rarely as neutral as it sounds.
