Moral Expediency Quotes

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Opinions upon moral questions are more often the expression of strongly felt expediency than of careful ethical reasoning

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

Immoral: Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral. If mans notions of right and wrong have any other basis than this of expediency; if they originated, or could have originated, in any other way; if actions have in themselves a moral character apart from and nowise dependent on, their consequences-then all philosophy is a lie and reason a disorder of the mind.

Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.

Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.

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.

Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that match our own, including logic and morality. Even among humans, morality is ignored when expedient. Why should we expect more from an alien life form than we demand from ourselves?