When we classify an issue as a 'shield issue' it is usually because we feel that someone else occupies the high ground… — Preston Manning Copy Share Image
Always trust your fellow man. And always cut the cards. Always trust God. And always build your house on high ground. Always… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
There is no moral high ground from which President Trump or any of his followers can tell anyone to leave this country,… — Deb Haaland Copy Share Image
In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Astrophysicists perfected navigation. We perfected all these things that matter to the power of nations manifest on the world stage. So we… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Oh, it's simple pragmatism, Dad. It's called the real world. If we refused to do business with the morally questionable, the deal… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
“I used to think that was what set me apart, you know? That I always did what I thought was right and… — Kyle Mills Copy Share Image
“As Ben-Gurion so often said, the moral high ground is also the basis of power.” — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
The United States lost a bit of the moral high ground when it comes to warning the world of the danger of… — David E. Sanger Copy Share Image
“Manners count. Be polite and seek out the common ground, not just the high ground.” — Allan Dare Pearce Copy Share Image
“The moral high ground to which I aspired had turned into a slippery slope.” — Alfred Alcorn Copy Share Image
“We’re businessmen, Chubs. The moral high ground is wherever we set it.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“who cursed and swore at him from a moral high ground that cyclists alone seem able to inhabit.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
You know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter, — John Oliver Copy Share Image
I don't claim any moral or ethical high ground, but I also have chosen not to run for public office. Shouldn't there… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
“An old mind is a thing to fear The truth, in its purest form is boring Through comedy, a person can hide… — Alberto Arcia Copy Share Image
“Wherever my grandfather had gone in his remarkable life, he had walked. He had been a diplomat and a mountaineer who spent… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
Use and beauty - these should be the ends of all human effort. But the competitive struggle swings us away from this… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
There is certainly this widespread anti-Americanism within the Russian elite, a feeling that the U.S. lost any moral high ground it could… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
We can't reform mandatory spending in this area until we first deal with ours. I tell my colleagues, 'Let's get the moral… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we condone torture, we yield the moral high ground to our enemies and encourage anyone who hates us to stoop to… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
'The Truth' is not meant to preach or point any fingers. It's meant to show that perhaps we should all avoid taking… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“A full appreciation of this crucial position requires an examination of the Confederate defense on this side of Antietam Creek and a… — Carol Reardon Copy Share Image
“A person who is seeking to feel justification for some action might move from “What you’ve done angers me” to “What you’ve… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
After fifteen years of facing them (pitchers) you don't really get over them. They're devious. They're the only players in the game… — Richie Ashburn Copy Share Image
“I am stubbornly proud of my sexuality. To anyone who has looked down on me from a moral high ground , I… — Anna Camilleri Copy Share Image
“It’s called the real world. If we refused to do business with the morally questionable, the deal volume would drop in half… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
“She couldn't or simply wouldn't understand why I wanted to sleep all the time, and she was always rubbing my nose in… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
Looking back on 200 years of feminist agitation in this country, we've got to get it that the moral high ground doesn't… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Don’t talk about shit you don’t know, Billy thinks, and therein lies the dynamic of all such encounters, the Bravos speak from… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
People think you can't be tall if you're short. That you can't be strong if you're not. A weakness is only a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Something to be learned from Noah's Ark¦ ONE: Don't miss the boat. TWO: Remember that we are all in the same boat.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Imagine a pantomime directed by Quentin Tarantino, where villains are booed, heroes are blood-stained, the body-count is high, the entertainment pulsating, the… — Henry Winter Copy Share Image
“A victim evokes sympathy, right? Victims are not responsible, right? Victims have the moral high ground… someone else is causing the misery,… — David W. Earle Copy Share Image
“Where Is Your Sanctuary? Where do you go when you’re hurting? Let’s say it’s been a terrible day at the office. You… — Kyle Idleman Copy Share Image
“It is very hard to talk to a person who believes that he or she has the moral high ground. You have… — Paul Nielsen Copy Share Image
“The country no longer felt like the innocent place it was said to be in the Eisenhower fifties. Political murder, economic injustice… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“And as we stood there, a curious thing happened: a kind of window opened in the rain, just as if a cloud… — Francis Brett Young Copy Share Image
