The Fountainhead Quotes

You can fake virtue for an audience. You can’t fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running.

I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom, Alvah, freedom.”“You call that freedom?”“To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

I’ll listen if you want me to... But I think I should tell you now that nothing you can say will make any difference. If you don’t mind that, I don’t mind listening.

You never wanted me to be real. You never wanted anyone to be. But you didn’t want me to show it. You wanted an act to help your act...

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

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

...Opinion without a rational process.

It was a satisfying bravery