High Ground Quotes
Debating who really holds the moral high ground
This page collects quotes about high ground, mostly the moral high ground debated in politics, foreign policy, and America's standing among allies.
We can't reform mandatory spending in this area until we first deal with ours. I tell my colleagues, 'Let's get the moral high ground and demonstrate that we want to make changes to our pension, and then we can deal...
When we classify an issue as a 'shield issue' it is usually because we feel that someone else occupies the high ground on that issue. We feel we can't win on that issue and so we adopt a defensive posture.
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Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.
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.
Abandoned Quotes
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...
Use and beauty - these should be the ends of all human effort. But the competitive struggle swings us away from this high ground and plunges us into a quagmire fight for cheap goods and cheap labor.
The United States lost a bit of the moral high ground when it comes to warning the world of the danger of cyberattacks.
My father really set the tone for us to be a more moral nation, to take a moral high ground in everything that we do.
In the Trump era, the Left has smartly and justifiably seized a moral high ground that the Right has abandoned by its embrace of the president.
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Other lines extend the idea to culture and academia, arguing that certain philosophies hold the high ground there just as firmly.
