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disrespect or reject as not good enough
- What form of corruption could he scorn?1.10 Part 1 Chapter 10 — Wyatt's Torch (25% in)
- ...at once-men of that sort were so hard to find-and if anything happened to break the flow of the rolling mills-it was the Taggart rail that was being rolled...... He remembered the silent reproach, the look of accusation, long-bearing patience and scorn, which he always saw in the eyes of his family when they caught some evidence of his passion for his business-and the futility of his silence, of his hope that they would not think Rearden Steel meant as much to him as it did-like a drunkard...1.6 Part 1 Chapter 6 — The Non-Commercial (5% in)
- ...evidence of his passion for his business-and the futility of his silence, of his hope that they would not think Rearden Steel meant as much to him as it did-like a drunkard pretending indifference to liquor, among people who watch him with the scornful amusement of their full knowledge of his shameful weakness...... "I heard you last night coming home at two in the morning, where were you?" his mother saying to him at the dinner table, and Lillian answering, "Why, at the mills, of course,"...1.6 Part 1 Chapter 6 — The Non-Commercial (6% in)
- The face was like his words-as if the line of a single theme ran from the steady glance of the eyes, through the gaunt muscles of the cheeks, to the faintly scornful, downward curve of the mouth-the line of a ruthless asceticism.1.7 Part 1 Chapter 7 — The Exploiters and the Exploited (79% in)
- The tense, scornful face she remembered, now had the purity, the eagerness, the joyous benevolence of a child in the kind of world for which he had been intended.1.8 Part 1 Chapter 8 — The John Galt Line (86% in)
- By doing work you despise for purchasers you scorn?2.2 Part 2 Chapter 2 — The Aristocracy of Pull (77% in)
- You have been scorned for all those qualities of character which are your highest pride.2.3 Part 2 Chapter 3 — White Blackmail (81% in)
- Rearden realized suddenly, for the first time, that Danneskjold's face was more than handsome, that it had the startling beauty of physical perfection-the hard, proud features, the scornful mouth of a Viking's statue-yet he had not been aware of it, almost as if the dead sternness of the face had forbidden the impertinence of an appraisal.2.7 Part 2 Chapter 7 — The Moratorium on Brains (23% in)
- At seventy, he was an obese old man with retouched hair and a manner of scornful cynicism retouched by quotations from the yogis about the futility of all human endeavor.2.7 Part 2 Chapter 7 — The Moratorium on Brains (47% in)
- The angular planes of his cheeks made her think of arrogance, of tension, of scorn-yet the face had none of these qualities, it had their final sum: a look of serene determination and of certainty, and the look of a ruthless innocence which would not seek forgiveness or grant it.3.1 Part 3 Chapter 1 — Atlantis (1% in)
- Her voice was low, its intensity was both a surrender and a scornful reproach: "You know better than that, don't you?3.1 Part 3 Chapter 1 — Atlantis (99% in)
- Dr. Stadler leaned back a little, his face austere and scornful, the face of the nation's greatest scientist, and asked, "Who invented that ghastly thing?3.3 Part 3 Chapter 3 — Anti-Greed (19% in)
- You've never suffered, the eyes were saying with self-righteous scorn-while he remembered the sensation of proud chastity with which he had fought through those moments, refusing to surrender to pain, a sensation made of his love, of his loyalty, of his knowledge that joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.3.5 Part 3 Chapter 5 — Their Brothers' Keepers (41% in)
- Cuffy Meigs tried to avoid her; his manner was part scorn, as if he considered her an impractical idealist, part superstitious awe, as if she possessed some incomprehensible power with which he preferred not to tangle.3.5 Part 3 Chapter 5 — Their Brothers' Keepers (55% in)
- The luster of the cloth, streaming and shifting with her movements, made it look as if the light of the room she entered were her personal property, sensitively obedient to-the motions of her body, wrapping her in a sheet of radiance more luxurious than the texture of brocade, underscoring the pliant fragility of her figure, giving her an air of so natural an elegance that it could afford to be scornfully casual.3.5 Part 3 Chapter 5 — Their Brothers' Keepers (68% in)
- ...on the afterglow of the minds of others, offering their denial of the mind as their only claim to distinction, and a craving to control the world as their only lust-she, the woman hanger-on of that elite, wearing their shopworn sneer as her answer to the universe, holding impotence as superiority and emptiness as virtue-he, unaware of their hatred, innocently scornful of their posturing fraud-she, seeing him as the danger to their world, as a threat, as a challenge, as a reproach.3.6 Part 3 Chapter 6 — The Concerto of Deliverance (32% in)
- Then Lawson said softly, half in reproach, half in scorn, "Well, after all, you businessmen have kept predicting disasters for years, you've cried catastrophe at every progressive measure and told us that we'll perish-but we haven't."3.6 Part 3 Chapter 6 — The Concerto of Deliverance (62% in)
- Your code-which boasts that it upholds eternal, absolute, objective moral values and scorns the conditional, the relative and the subjective —your code hands out, as its version of the absolute, the following rule of moral conduct: If you wish it, it's evil; if others wish it, it's good; if the motive of your action is your welfare, don't do it; if the motive is the welfare of others, then anything goes.3.7 Part 3 Chapter 7 — "This is John Galt Speaking" (43% in)
- If you heal your pain by your own effort, you receive no moral credit: your code regards it scornfully as an act of self-interest.3.7 Part 3 Chapter 7 — "This is John Galt Speaking" (45% in)
- A morality that professes the belief that the values of the spirit are more precious than matter, a morality that teaches you to scorn a whore who gives her body indiscriminately to all men-this same morality demands that you surrender your soul to promiscuous love for all comers.3.7 Part 3 Chapter 7 — "This is John Galt Speaking" (47% in)
- '-they answer with righteous scorn that a 'how' is the concept of vulgar realists; the concept of superior spirits is 'Somehow.'3.7 Part 3 Chapter 7 — "This is John Galt Speaking" (50% in)
- You, who dare to regard us as the moral inferiors of any mystic who claims supernatural visions-you, who scramble like vultures for plundered pennies, yet honor a fortune-teller above a fortune maker-you, who scorn a businessman as ignoble, but esteem any posturing artist as exalted-the root of your standards is that mystic miasma which comes from primordial swamps, that cult of death, which pronounces a businessman immoral by reason of the fact that he keeps you alive.3.7 Part 3 Chapter 7 — "This is John Galt Speaking" (74% in)
- ...willing to sell their intelligence into cynical servitude to force: the contemptible breed of those mystics of science who profess a devotion to some sort of 'pure knowledge' the purity consisting of their claim that such knowledge has no practical purpose on this earth-who reserve their logic for inanimate matter, but believe that the subject of dealing with men requires and deserves no rationality, who scorn money and sell their souls in exchange for a laboratory supplied by loot.3.7 Part 3 Chapter 7 — "This is John Galt Speaking" (95% in)
- And since there is no such thing as 'non-practical knowledge' or any sort of 'disinterested' action, since they scorn the use of their science for the purpose and profit of life, they deliver their science to the service of death, to the only practical purpose it can ever have for looters: to inventing weapons of coercion and destruction.3.7 Part 3 Chapter 7 — "This is John Galt Speaking" (95% in)
- "You're a fine bunch of intellectuals, you are," said Mr. Thompson scornfully.3.8 Part 3 Chapter 8 — The Egoist (66% in)
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