If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

I am unwilling to be wholly good—and please don't regard me as wholly evil!

An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.

She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt.

Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.

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.

I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important.