p23 "My dear fellow, who will let you?" - The Dean
"That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?" - Howard Roark

p79 The water had been turned off by a society to whom Cameron had never paid his bill.

p301 "There are two things we must get rid of early in life: a feeling of personal superiority and an exaggerated reverence for the sexual act." - Ellsworth Toohey

p346 "It's difficult enough to acquire fame. It is impossbile to change its nature once you've acquired it."
"Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable?" - Ellsworth Toohey

p408 "If you make people perform a noble duty, it bores them. If you make them indulge themselves, it shames them. But combine the two and you've got them." - Gail Wynand

p409 Its enormous headlines, glaring pictures and oversimplified text hit the senses and entered men's consciousness without any necessity for an intermediary process of reason, like food shot through the rectum, requiring no digestion.

p426 "People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they're reflecting too...Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end." - Dominique

p446 "When I look at the ocean, I feel the greatness of man. I think of man's magnificent capacity that created this ship to conquer all that senseless space. When I look at mountain peaks, I think of tunnels and dynamite. When I look at the planets, I think of airplanes." - Gail Wynand

p472 "Sure he's good but suppose I didn't like him. Suppose I wanted to stop people from seeing his plays. It would do me no good whatever to tell them so. But if I sold them the idea that you're just as great as Ibsen - pretty soon they wouldn't be able to tell the difference...then it wouldn't matter what they went to see at all. Then nothing would matter - neither the writers nor those for whom they wrote." - Ellsworth Toohey

p519-20 "This house is to be a prison. No, not quite that. A treasury - a vault to guard things too precious for sight...It must be a separate world, so beautiful that we'll never miss the one we left. A prison only by the power of its own perfection. Not bars and ramparts - but your talent standing as a wall between us and the world" - Gail Wynand

p529 "I hate incompetence. I think it's probably the only thing I do hate. But it didn't make me want to rule people. Nor to teach them anything. It made me want to do my own work in my own way and let myself be torn to pieces if necessary - Howard Roark

p598 "...why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want." - Peter Keating

p602 "I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself." - Howard Roark

p605 "What was his aim in life? Greatness - in other people's eyes. Fame, admiration, envy - all that comes from others...He didn't want to be great, but to be thought great." - Howard Roark