How we cite our quotes: (Volume.Chapter.Paragraph.)
Quote #1
"Accept them, Roark. Compromise. Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway [....]" (1.4.146)
For Cameron, society is all about being forced to compromise and to give in to all the corruption. Maybe he had been mainlining The Wire before he met with Roark.
Quote #2
[T]hat merely by living through their own obscure days his readers were representing and achieving all the highest objectives of any civilization. (1.6.2)
The tone here is pretty bitter, as the narrator assesses what Toohey is preaching to the masses. Here Toohey gives everyone a false sense of importance by telling people that they are important just by existing. This logic is supremely not Objectivist.
Quote #3
He dressed well and watched people noticing it. He had an apartment off Park Avenue, modest but fashionable, and he bought three valuable etchings as well as a first edition of a classic he had never read nor opened since. (1.6.31)
Keating's rise up the social ladder is one of superficial achievements and materialism. All the details here help to emphasize the superficial and hollow nature of Keating's life.