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  • Excerpts from "The Fountainhead" in the Age of Obama

    11/14/2008 6:15:36 PM PST · by ReleaseTheHounds · 65 replies · 2,089+ views
    The Fountainhead | March 1943 | Ayn Rand
    Page 103, Chapter "Peter Keating". Ellsworth Toohey is speaking to a crowd of striking workers while Peter Keating and Toohey's niece, Catherine, are listening to the loudspeaker outside the hall: It was not a voice, it was a miracle. It unrolled as a velvet banner. It spoke English words, but the resonant clarity of each syllable made it sound like a new language spoken for the first time. It was the voice of a giant. Keating stood, his mouth open. He did not hear what the voice was saying. He heard the beauty of the sounds without meaning. He felt...
  • Exterminating Ellsworth

    08/27/2003 12:46:25 PM PDT · by Mr.Atos · 87 replies · 365+ views
    The Free Radical Online ^ | Uknown | DAVID C. ADAMS
    "Don't set out to raze all shrines — you'll frighten men. Enshrine mediocrity — and the shrines are razed . . . Kill by laughter. Laughter is an instrument of human joy. Learn to use it as a weapon of destruction. Turn it into a sneer. It's simple. Tell them to laugh at virtue. Don't let anything remain sacred in a man's soul — and his soul won't be sacred to him. Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man" In a famous speech from Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead (p. 637), arch-villain Ellsworth Toohey explains one way to seize...