“We’re businessmen, Chubs. The moral high ground is wherever we set it.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Few politicians are good at taking the high ground and throwing themselves off it. — Peter Mandelson Copy Share Image
“The moral high ground to which I aspired had turned into a slippery slope.” — Alfred Alcorn Copy Share Image
“The moral high ground proved to be one hell of an aphrodisiac...” — Eve A. Floriste Copy Share Image
“Manners count. Be polite and seek out the common ground, not just the high ground.” — Allan Dare Pearce Copy Share Image
“Take the high road. People will rise up to join you or fall out of sight.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“It was one of those moments when the moral high ground opens and swallows you up.” — Tom Holt 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
My father really set the tone for us to be a more moral nation, to take a moral high ground in everything… — Bernice King Copy Share Image
“And the moral high ground is a lovely place,” Marwick said, as if he were agreeing. “It won’t stop a missile, though.” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
An e-mail from a reader says that liberals like to take the moral high ground, even though their own moral relativism means… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I don't feel I'm taking the moral high ground, telling people to stop eating animals because I've done it. It just works… — Bill Ward 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
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
I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
For people who never tire of telling the world what a moral high ground they've taken in opposing Donald Trump, they sure… — Mike Gallagher 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
“You will never overcome your self righteousness if you continue to believe that God prefers you over other people. The moment you… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Everyone must know by now that the aim of Scrabble is to gain the moral high ground, the loser being the first… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
“By now the streets of Kalaupapa were filled with people racing for high ground - sick people crying "Tsunami!" as nature played… — Alan Brennert 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
“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
“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
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
“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
I remember my days as a graduate student at Stanford, within any leading university, a very active Israeli support, for Israel, Jews… — Ehud Barak 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
“What makes Marlowe’s defiance and even D’Amville’s anticlerical contempt compelling is their moral edge. And in their very different ways, Acosta, Coornhert,… — Alec Ryrie 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
“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
“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
“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
“Until we are willing to oppose all abortion--ALL ABORTION---then the Christian community will lack the true ethical high ground to oppose ANY… — Douglas W. Phillips Copy Share Image
“there’s never been a safer time to go for a ride. Sadly, though, there’s a problem. You see, cycling is seen now… — Jeremy Clarkson 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
“Who has the moral high ground? Fifteen blocks from the whitehouse on small corners in northwest, d.c. boys disguised as me rip… — Haki R. Madhubuti Copy Share Image
“You will never be able to end any battle if the people involved are unable to see their own hypocrisy, or how… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“New Rule: America must stop bragging it's the greatest country on earth, and start acting like it. I know this is uncomfortable… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
