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moral integrity
- She wanted to wrest from him an acknowledgment of his moral depravity-but only his own moral rectitude could attach significance to such a verdict.2.4 Part 2 Chapter 4 — The Sanction of the Victim (11% in)
- She did not know that the thing which seemed so violent, yet felt like such a still, unfamiliar calm within her, was the power of full certainty-and that the anger shaking her body, the anger which made her ready, with the same passionate indifference, either to kill or to die, was her love of rectitude, the only love to which all the years of her life had been given.2.6 Part 2 Chapter 6 — Miracle Metal (60% in)
- Your unrequited rectitude is the only hold they have upon you.2.8 Part 2 Chapter 8 — By Our Love (48% in)
- Her line of attack, which he had found so baffling, had been constant and clear-it was his self-esteem she had sought to destroy, knowing that a man who surrenders his value is at the mercy of anyone's will; it was his moral purity she had struggled to breach, it was his confident rectitude she had wanted to shatter by means of the poison of guilt-as if, were he to collapse, his depravity would give her a right to hers.3.6 Part 3 Chapter 6 — The Concerto of Deliverance (34% in)
- ...sacrificial furnace-that your morality forbids you to oppose them in the only way they can be opposed: by refusing to become a sacrificial animal and proudly asserting your right to exist-that in order to fight them to the finish and with full rectitude, it is your morality that you have to reject, "You blank it out, because your self-esteem is tied to that mystic 'unselfishness' which you've never possessed or practiced, but spent so many years pretending to possess that the thought...3.7 Part 3 Chapter 7 — "This is John Galt Speaking" (81% in)
- Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth.3.7 Part 3 Chapter 7 — "This is John Galt Speaking" (**% in)
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