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Quotes from Howard Roark describing second-hand men in The Fountainhead — Ayn Rand

1905–1982 Russia

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The independent man kills them—because they don’t exist within him and that’s the only form of existence they know. Notice the malignant kind of resentment against any idea that propounds independence. Notice the malice toward an independent man.

Howard Roark describing second-hand men in The Fountainhead (1996)

They have no concern for facts, ideas, work. They’re concerned only with people. They don’t ask: “Is this true?” They ask: “Is this what others think is true?” Not to judge, but to repeat. Not to do, but to give the impression of doing. Not creation, but show.

Howard Roark describing second-hand men in The Fountainhead (1943)

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