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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
In some ways, climbing in the clouds is comforting. You can no longer see how high off the ground you are.
— Tommy Caldwell
The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.
— Chinua Achebe
I am no longer tied to the cliffsThreats don't hold any ground
I have decided to fly high
On the winds of cool complacence — Balroop Singh
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
Heaven is high and earth wide. If you ride three feet higher above the ground than other men, you will know what that means.
— Rudolf G. Binding
Keep your head high. Ain't nothing to look at on the ground,
— Rachel Van Dyken
It's not how high we jump off our feet in church, it's what we do with them when we hit the ground!
— Tom Ridge
Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?
— Douglas Wilson
High heels are a plot against women, they throw our spines out and stop us from standing on the ground.
— Jennifer Clement
I'm too high, but I ain't left the ground.
— Stevie Wonder
When we separated, I did not want to get in a slugfest. I had to take the high ground.
— Marla Maples
I spent my 16th birthday high as a kite, jumping out of a tree topless in my local park just because it felt amazing hitting the ground.
— Florence Welch
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
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
Take the high road. People will rise up to join you or fall out of sight.
— Shannon L. Alder
Don't forget that birds with broken wings walking on the ground were once flying high up in the sky.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Manners count. Be polite and seek out the common ground, not just the high ground.
— Allan Dare Pearce
damn lonely on the moral high ground.
— A.W. Exley
Few politicians are good at taking the high ground and throwing themselves off it.
— Peter Mandelson
Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.
— Bruce Lee
You know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter,
— John Oliver
Dear Adam,"Flying high is marvelous, staying on the ground is great. What is really tasteless is staying in between."
Love Daddy — Sameh Elsayed
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
Aim for a star, and keep your sights high! With a heart full of faith within, your feet on the ground and your eyes in the sky.
— Helen Lowrie Marshall
That's how hatred is created: two different groups, each insisting they're on the moral high ground
— Neil Strauss
Do not lie on low ground, the torrent will take you off; do not lie on high ground, the wind will take you away — Raj Doctor
The high ground is defensible.
— Ken Marlin
I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!
— Natasha Henstridge
The moral high ground proved to be one hell of an aphrodisiac...
— Eve A. Floriste
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
I'm a classic eccentric, living at the extremes of high mania and low mood. There's no middle ground, only madness and sadness.
— Fennel Hudson
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
