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Moral High Ground Quotes

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.

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
Moral High Ground, Hypocrisy, Acting

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, Moral High Ground, Mail

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

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

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

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, Moral High Ground, Play

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

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

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, Moral High Ground

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

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
Moral High Ground, Iraq, United States
Source: www.nbcnews.com

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, Moral High Ground, President

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

Rachel Kushner
Real, Moral High Ground, Claims
Source: therumpus.net

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, Moral High Ground, America

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