Moral High Ground Quotes

• That's how hatred is created: two different groups, each insisting they're on the moral high ground

  Neil Strauss

  Two, Hatred, Groups

  Neil Strauss (2011). “Emergency: One man's story of a dangerous world, and how to stay alive in it”, p.53, Canongate Books

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• We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From there we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Giving, Enemy

  "Raging from the moral highground" by Ian Sansom, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2000.

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• Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Hypocrisy, Acting, Way

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• An e-mail from a reader says that liberals like to take the moral high ground, even though their own moral relativism means that there is no moral high ground.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, Mail, Moral Relativism

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• Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.

  Marty Meehan

  Leadership, President, Vices

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• You know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter.

  John Oliver

  Wells, Loses, Reporters

  "John Oliver Skewers Roger Goodell, Says NFL Commish Has Lost Moral High Ground To TMZ" By Ryan Grenoble, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2014.

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• If we condone torture, we yield the moral high ground to our enemies and encourage anyone who hates us to stoop to using that subhuman level against us. We reap whatever we sow.

  Rick Warren

  Hate, Yield, Enemy

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• As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.

  Veronica Roth

  Teenager, Stressed, Pressure

  "Veronica Roth on her book 'Insurgent' and feminism". Interview with Susan Carpenter, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 30, 2012.

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• America has lost the moral high ground with the rest of the world, and we have fewer allies as a result. President Bush and his administration have undermined the war on terror by using tactics outlawed by international treaty and condemned by even our closest friends.

  John Olver

  War, America, President

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• We have the - the longest, friendliest border, you know, for the - for the longest time in the history - in recorded history, really, with Canada. And they get to sit on their moral perch, you know, take the moral high ground, say, oh, United States, shame on you about Iraq. They make us look bad internationally. And it's really not fair.

  Tucker Carlson

  Iraq, United States, Borders

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.

  Rachel Kushner

  Real, Claims, Regard

  Source: therumpus.net

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• And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.

  Lara Flynn Boyle

  Character, Play, Trying

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• Looking back on 200 years of feminist agitation in this country, we've got to get it that the moral high ground doesn't get us anything. Pleading with powerful men never gets us what we need. Talking doesn't do it. Being right doesn't do it. Hardball politics does it ... and a political strategy.

  Naomi Wolf

  Country, Powerful, Men

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