We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossibl...
Writing is serious business and not for any stray bastard that wants to try it.
Her face lay still on the air under his face...
Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wre...
Toohey: Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us.Roark: But I don't think of you.
To say I love you one must know first how to say the I.
Things stood still, not a leaf trembled on the branches, while the sky slowly lost its color and became an expanse that looked like the spread of glowing water.
There was a great satisfaction to be found in the food which we need and obtain by our own hand.
There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.
The basic purpose of art is not to teach, but to show—to hold up to man a concretized image of his nature and his place in the universe.
That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?
She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.
Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest...
Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.
It was beautiful and rare, and you have every right to despise me.She stood pressed to the wall, not moving.When you came in, I thought 'Send her away.' But I knew that if you went away, I'd run after...
I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth....
I don't like the thing that's happening to people, Miss Taggart. I don't know. But I've watched them here for twenty years and I've seen the change. They used to rush through here, and it was wonderfu...
I don't believe it matters to me- that they're going to destroy it. Maybe it hurts so much that I don't even know I'm hurt. But I don't think so. If you want to carry it for my sake, don't carry more...