Ayn Rand citáty

„Milovat znamená dělat výjimky. Kdybys někoho milovala, přála by sis, aby tě zlomil, ponížil, podřídil si tě, ovládal tě, protože to je přesně to, co je pro tebe ve vztahu ke komukoli nepřípustné a nepředstavitelné. To by byl jediný dar, ta veliká výjimka, kterou bys mohla nabídnout muži, jehož bys milovala. Přestože by to pro tebe nebylo vůbec lehké.“

„Otázkou není, kdo mi to dovolí. Otázkou je, kdo mi v tom zabrání.“

„Pravda není pro každého, ale jen pro ty, kteří ji hledají .“

„Neexistují zlé myšlenky kromě jediné: odmítání myslet.“

„Zlo vyžaduje potrestání oběti.“

„Každá forma štěstí je soukromá. Naše největší okamžiky jsou osobní, vycházejí z nás a nikdo se jich nemá dotýkat.“

„Identifikujte dominantní filosofii ve společnosti a můžete předvídat její budoucnost.“

“When the common good of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members, it means that the good of some men takes precedence over the good of others, with those others consigned to the status of sacrificial animals.”

“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”

“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”

“I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.”

“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”

“Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. You're here. It's our time and our life, not theirs. Don't struggle not to be happy. You are."

- John Gault”

“Any group or “collective,” large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members.”

“There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it—it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it—you don't know what right is and you're not a man.”

“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”

“To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".”

“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”

“Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.”

“The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.”

“Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.”

“Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.”

“A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.”

“I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.”

“But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.”

“A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack”

“A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.”

“For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor.”

“There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers.”

“… if the majority of men cannot know what is good for them, each for himself, how can they know what is good for others by proxy? If they are to be controlled by specialists, how and by what standard can they choose the specialist?”

“Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.”

“Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.”

“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”

“Remember also that the smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”

“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.”