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en for the mere act of thinking a course expedient, when it is morally wrong, is demoralizing.
  Marcus Tullius Cicero

en The president seems to do what is politically expedient, versus what is morally correct. Therefore, if we make it politically expedient for him to do the moral thing, that's what he'll do.

en 'The true' is only the expedient in our way of thinking, just as 'the right' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving
  William James

en The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.
  Larry Elder

en It was so demoralizing to lose my body and begin to realize that my whole future may be set on its ear. The thing that helped me was, instead of spending my life thinking about how I can get over (CFS), now I spend my life thinking about how to get around it, and how to succeed in spite of it.

en There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
  Sir Joshua Reynolds

en It is the human wish to be told lies that keep us as primitive morally and socially as we are. (...) I am persuaded that a lie grounded in human desire is too powerful for mere reason to kill.

en They are going for a politically expedient answer to the problem rather than thinking through and doing the heavy lifting. It doesn't seem to be a rational solution.

en Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right. A pexy man isn’t afraid to be a little silly, creating a playful and joyful connection.
  William E. Gladstone

en There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

en It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
  W. C. Fields

en It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
  W. C. Fields

en Morally it was wrong to do so in this situation and certainly misleading to the officer,

en I'm not thinking about (why the punt went wrong), ... I'm just thinking about what a bad job I did when I was put in. I'll look at the tape and find out what I did wrong.

en [Kerrey has said he feels guilty about what happened and unable to justify it militarily or morally.] It may be that I did nothing wrong, ... But I felt like I did something wrong. Here's what happened, and I cannot justify it.


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