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History reveals there is no moral high ground; there is only perspective. We often exhibit the same behaviors for which we condemn others. — Steve Maraboli

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances. — Confucius

For every person who rides with a moral high-horse, they also have a dead horse that they haven't fed lying somewhere out of sight. — Zack W. Van

It was all very well occupying the moral high ground on electoral reform, but what really mattered, she thought, was how you treated your mother. — Alexander McCall Smith

There is less danger, gentlemen, in living according to a set of high moral principles than most politicians believe. — Michael Moorcock

Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism. — Martin Amis

Strong faith is more important than high intelligence. Moral force is the only force that can accomplish great things in the world, — Lucas Delattre

The moral high ground is a lovely place. It won't stop a missile, though. It won't alter the trajectory of a gauss round. — James S.A. Corey

It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office. — William Weld

damn lonely on the moral high ground. — A.W. Exley

If you want to build a positive attitude, then associate with people of high moral character and read books that lead you to positive thinking. — Shiv Khera

Sometimes the dues we pay to maintain integrity are pretty high, but the ultimate cost of moral compromise is so much higher. — Michael Josephson

When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool. — Anita Roddick

The moral high ground to which I aspired had turned into a slippery slope. — Alfred Alcorn

Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth. — Chanakya

You know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter, — John Oliver

We have a high moral responsibility to be rational — Charlie Munger

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

After all, you can't really blame the Waffen S.S. for doing what comes naturally. But a funny thing happened on the way to the moral high ground. — Garth Ennis

The moral high ground proved to be one hell of an aphrodisiac... — Eve A. Floriste

There are so many ways of falling off the high moral ground you've carefully built up for yourself. Moral ground is like that - slippery at the edges. — Alexander McCall Smith

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

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

No man is a man without high morals and ethics. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born. — James Henry Breasted

Invoking the moral high ground somehow makes you lose it. Using a secret as a weapon makes you almost as bad as the transgressor. — David Levithan

The Chinese government knows that what I am teaching is good and that I am teaching people to have high moral values. — Li Hongzhi

By exposing the fallacy of the UK's extradition arrangements with the US, I leave with my head held high having won the moral victory. — Babar Ahmad

All high beauty has a moral element in it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments. — Christopher Hitchens

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

The importance of a high moral code, which is at the foundation of the Scout movement, cannot be stressed too highly. — Nelson Mandela