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Few politicians are good at taking the high ground and throwing themselves off it.
Peter Mandelson / British Politician
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When we separated, I did not want to get in a slugfest. I had to take the high ground.
Marla Maples / Actress
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Autocratic power requires the degradation of moral authority - not the capture of moral high ground.
Masha Gessen / Journalist
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Capture
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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.
Bernice King / Minister
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The United States lost a bit of the moral high ground when it comes to warning the world of the danger of cyberattacks.
David E. Sanger /
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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.
Bari Weiss /
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Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying you're moral is not the same as acting morally.
Alan Dershowitz / Lawyer
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Back
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Israel is much more effective when the Israelis are convinced that we are on the moral high ground: that we are acting not just out of might, but also out of right.
Ehud Barak / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
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Convinced
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Israel
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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 / Attorneys In The United States
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International
Moral High Ground
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President Bush
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Cheney
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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.
Marvin Olasky / Editor
Academia
Animal
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Human Beings
Machines
Most Powerful
Philosophy
Powerful
Animals
Beings
Courts
Materialist
Philosophies
Possess
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I don't claim any moral or ethical high ground, but I also have chosen not to run for public office. Shouldn't there be a higher standard of conduct for public officials?
Mark Mckinnon / Advisor
Chosen
Ethical
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Officials
Public Office
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Conduct
Standard
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Everyone must know by now that the aim of Scrabble is to gain the moral high ground, the loser being the first player to slam the board shut and upset all the letters over the floor.
Craig Brown /
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'The Truth' is not meant to preach or point any fingers. It's meant to show that perhaps we should all avoid taking the moral high ground unless we have thought about things a bit more.
Michael Palin / Comedian
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For people who never tire of telling the world what a moral high ground they've taken in opposing Donald Trump, they sure don't seem to mind offering up a bellyful of gloats and taunts.
Mike Gallagher / Radio Host
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Opposing
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Donald
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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.
Edwin Markham / Poet
Effort
Goods
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Labor
Quagmire
Struggle
Swings
Cheap
Competitive
Human Effort
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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.
Preston Manning / Canadian Politician
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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 / Actress
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Attorney
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Myself Character Always
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District Attorney
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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 / Novelist
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Teenager
Myself Me Pressure
Finding
Grown
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There is certainly this widespread anti-Americanism within the Russian elite, a feeling that the U.S. lost any moral high ground it could possibly have because of Iraq, Abu Ghraib, and increasing concern of U.S. intentions locally.
Fiona Hill /
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Lost
Moral
Within
Abu
Certainly
Elite
Ghraib
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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 with the big problems.'
Tim Griffin /
Big Problems
Colleagues
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Pension
Reform
Spending
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Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.
Maya Angelou / Author
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The British film industry has always tried to sell itself as something rather sophisticated. It's almost as if it thinks it is by royal command. It has always tried to claim the high ground, not only over Hollywood but over the whole of humanity!
Peter Capaldi / Actor
Command
Film Industry
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Sophisticated
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In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects.
Vitruvius /
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Intensely
Neither
Rains
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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 / Former U.s. Representative
Friends
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Allies
America
Closest
Closest Friends
Fewer
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Lost
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Moral High Ground
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President Bush
Tactics
Terror
Bush
Condemned
High
Rest
Ground
Outlawed
Result
Treaty
Undermined
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During one new moon at perigee, I stood on high ground, watching salt ponds overflow, cover the beach, and meet the ocean. Because the moon was invisible, the water was black as it drowned the sand, and the event felt primal - which in fact it was, because it was nature.
Luanne Rice / Author
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Moon
Overflow
Primal
Salt
Water
Cover
High
Drowned
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Fact
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There is no moral high ground from which President Trump or any of his followers can tell anyone to leave this country, because they are not the first inhabitants of this land. They should instead look into their history to learn where, when and why their ancestors came to this country.
Deb Haaland /
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Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death, and are more likely to be harassed by the police.
Vikram Patel /
Alcohol
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Prohibition
Affects
Disproportionately
Harassed
Imposed
Policies
Resort
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After Hurricane Sandy, my family and I stayed in our apartment in lower Manhattan before things normalized. We're lucky enough to live on a bit of high ground, so we weren't flooded... but it was intense. Since there was no light, water, or electricity, I spent a lot of time playing acoustic guitar in the evenings.
Lee Ranaldo / Musician
Acoustic Guitar
Apartment
Electricity
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Intense
Manhattan
Sandy
Acoustic
Evenings
Flooded
Hurricane
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