136 Quotes About The-fountainhead

She thought that relaxation was attractive only in those for whom it was an unnatural state; then even limpness acquired purpose.

She walked down the hill and she found relief in the unnatural stillness of the earth around her, the stillness of full light without sun, of leaves without motion, of a luminous, waiting silence.

She knew that neither his clothes nor the years stood between her and the living intactness of that memory.

...there had always been a God and a Devil—only men had been so mistaken about the shapes of their Devil—he was not single and big, he was many and smutty and small.

She sat looking at him as she always did; her glance had tenderness without scorn and sadness without pity.

I do not recognize anyone’s right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need.

The crowd would have forgiven anything, except a man who could remain normal under the vibrations of its enormous collective sneer.

They have no concern for facts, ideas, work. They’re concerned only with people. They don’t ask: ‘Is this true?’ They ask: ‘Is this what others think is true?’ Not to judge, but to repeat. Not to do, but to give the impression of doing. Not creation, but show. Not ability, but friendship. Not merit, but pull.

I recognize no obligations toward men except one: to respect their freedom and to take no part in a slave society.