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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.
Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
'Exculpatory' is in the eye of the beholder.
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.