Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society.

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

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.

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.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

Party honesty is party expediency.

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

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.

Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.

Custom adapts itself to expediency.

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.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.

Fear is the mother of morality.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.

There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.

I just think people should find the music that helps them through the day and enjoy that. I've never felt like, if somebody does or doesn't like what I'm doing, it's a morality issue.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.

While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.

Conventionality is not morality.