#mo

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#achievement #integrity #life #loyalty #mindless

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#another #character #earn #emotional #expression

Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#ever #force #good #motive #motives

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#any #civilization #men #morality #reject

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#men #money #reason #sell #stupidity

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#individual rights #law #means #moral #moral law

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#forbidden #individual #law #matter #mob

What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it. ↗

— Sally Rand

#bet #dancing #grandmother #grandmothers #heaven

When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off. ↗

— Sally Rand

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I don't want to respond to rumors that have no basis at all... But I am willing to respond to questions that the public and the press should know. ↗

— Charles Rangel

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