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"You have no idea what this faith is." "To this day I do not know what they mean when they call dead bodies beautiful. The ugliest man alive is an angel of beauty compared with the lovliest of the dead." "Libertarians are a bunch of dirty old men." "There is no such thing as 'common good'- nothing common is good." "In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." "There are no shortcuts to wisdom, none at all." "You wouldn't say, "triangles aren't what they used to be." "And he who you can not teach to fly, teach to fall faster" "A country without intellectuals is like a body without a head." "Politics is the business of gaining power and privilege without possessing merit." "'When everybody agrees,' Taggart's voice suddenly went shrill, 'when people are unanimous, how does one man dare dissent? By what right? That's what I want to know-by what right?'" "The many, the most vulgar, would seem to conceive the good and happiness as pleasure, and hence they also like the life of gratification. Here they appear completely slavish, since the life they decide on is a life for grazing animals..." "As a matter of fact, the person who loves everybody and feels at home everywhere is the true hater of mankind. He expects nothing of men, so no form of depravity can outrage him. "And to display one's brains is so vulgar. It's even more vulgar than to display one's wealth." "She looked offensively unkempt, with studied slovenliness as careful as grooming-and for the same purpose." "Keating leaned back with a sense of warmth and well-being. He liked this book. It made the routine of his Sunday morning breakfast a profound spiritual experience; he was certain it was profound, because he didn't understand it." "'What do you want? Perfection?' '-or nothing. So, you see, I take the nothing.'" "Save the whales. Collect the whole set." ...go to the next page.
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