98 quotes found
“...Opinion without a rational process.”
“Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.”
“A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack”
“My real soul...? Its real only when its independent...”
“Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.”
“To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".”
“Listen to what is being preached today. Look at everyone around us. You've wondered why they suffer, why they seek happiness and never find it. If any man stopped and asked himself whether he's eve...”
“I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference”
“I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.”
“To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?”
“No! I don't want to speak of that! But I'm going to. I want you to hear. I want you to know what's in store for you. There will be days when you'll look at your hands and you'll want to take someth...”
“I often think that he's the only one of us who's achieved immortality. I don't mean in the sense of fame and I don't mean he won't die someday. But he's living it. I think he is what the conception...”
“Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because Im not the Gail Wynand youd heard about. You see, I love you. And love is exception-making. If you were in love youd want to be broken, tr...”
“Im not capable of suffering completely. I never have. It goes only down to a certain point and then it stops. As long as there is that untouched point, its not really pain.”
“She found a dark satisfaction in painbecause that pain came from him.”
“A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom.”
“She had never done these things before; she did them expertly. She had a capacity for action, a competence that clashed incongruously with her appearance.”
“You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want to grant. You'll accept such gratitude as the tenants might feel. And I - I'...”
“The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.”
“The mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise...”
“He needed the people and the clamour around him. There was no questions and no doubts when he stood on a platform over a sea of faces; the air was heavy, compact, saturated with a single solvent-ad...”
“When facing society, the man most concerned, the man who is to do the most and contribute the most, has the least say. It's taken for granted that he has no voice and the reasons he could offer are...”
“Of course I need you. I go insane when I see you. You can do almost anything you wish with me. Is that what you want to hear? Almost, Dominique. And the things you couldn't make me do you could pu...”
“Stand here, he thought, and count the lighted windows of a city. You cannot do it. But behind each yellow rectangle that climbs, one over another, to the sky - under each bulb - down to there, see ...”
“..each remembered other moments, on a sleepless night, on an afternoon of steady rain, in a church, in an empty street at sunset, when each had wondered why there was so much suffering and ugliness...”
“What in hell are you really made of, Howard? After all, it's only a building. It's not the combination of holy sacrament, Indian torture, and sexual ecstasy that you seem to make of it.""Isn't it?”
