Howard-roark Quotes

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagr...

The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man’s first duty is to himself. His moral law is n...

Roark spoke quietly. He was the only man in the room who felt certain of his own words.

He’s not really struggling even for material wealth, but for the second-hander’s delusion—prestige. ...

What in hell are you really made of, Howard? After all, it's only a building. It's not the combinati...

A man’s spirit is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to ...

And isn’t that the root of every despicable action? Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a ...

He knew, while he spoke, that it was useless, because his words sounded as if they were hitting a va...

If you want my advice, Peter,” he said at last, “you’ve made a mistake already. By asking me. By ask...

I want to sleep with you. Now, tonight, and at any time you may care to call me. I want your naked b...

In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone... Men exchange their work by ...

Men have been taught that the ego is the synonym of evil, and selflessness the ideal of virtue. But ...

Don’t you know that most people take most things because that’s what’s given them, and they have no ...

Keating felt naked...People were his protection against people. Roark had no sense of people. Others...

What would happen to the world without those who do, think, work, produce? Those are the egotists. Y...

[Howard Roark] was asked for a statement, and he received a group of reporters in his office. He spo...

And, after all, you’ve got to live.”“Not that way,” said Roark.

When they lay in bed together it was—as it had to be, as the nature of the act demanded—an act of vi...

She found a dark satisfaction in pain—because that pain came from him.

I’m not capable of suffering completely. I never have. It goes only down to a certain point and then...

I’ll listen if you want me to... But I think I should tell you now that nothing you can say will mak...

The audience looked at him. They felt he had no chance. They could drop the nameless resentment, the...

And she thought, with a vicious thrill, of what these people would do if they read her mind in this ...

His face was like a law of nature—a thing one could not question, alter or implore. It had high chee...

I want to sleep with you. Now, tonight, and at any time you may care to call me. I want your naked b...

...the best is a matter of standards—and I set my own standards.

All that which proceeds from man’s independent ego is good. All that which proceeds from man’s depen...

The egotist in the absolute sense is not the man who sacrifices others. He is the man who stands abo...

I think the only cardinal evil on earth is that of placing your prime concern within other men. I’ve...

It’s a law of survival, isn’t it?—to seek the best. I didn’t come for your sake. I came for mine.

The mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is n...