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Expedience Quotes

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Thomas Paine
“Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense
tags: expedience, oppression, right
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Timothy Snyder
“When political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become more important. It is hard to subvert a rule-of-law state without lawyers, or to hold show trials without judges. Authoritarians need obedient civil servants, and concentration camp directors seek businessmen interested in cheap labor.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
tags: authoritarianism, authoritarians, conformity, ethics, expedience, greed, lawlessness, rule-of-law
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: animal, animals, anthropocentric, anthropocentrism, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, barbarian, barbaric, barbarism, barbarous, brutish, civilization, civilize, civilized, compare, compare-to, convenience, convenient, creature, creatures, expedience, expedient, funny, heathen, homo-sapiens, human, human-beings, human-race, humanity, humans, humor, humour, ignorant, joke, jokes, liken, liken-to, neanderthal, people, persons, primitive, religion, satire, savage, species, suit, uncivilized, uncultivated, vulgar, wild
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