Quotes by Moral High Ground 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 acting hypocrisy 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 moral-high-ground war america You know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter. John Oliver moral-high-ground loses wells 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 moral-high-ground play character 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 moral-high-ground president leadership That's how hatred is created: two different groups, each insisting they're on the moral high ground Neil Strauss moral-high-ground hatred two I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground. Rachel Kushner moral-high-ground real claims 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 moral-high-ground yield hate 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 moral-high-ground giving thinking 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 moral-high-ground mail mean 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 united-states iraq 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 moral-high-ground stressed teenager