Ayn Rand nejznámější citáty
„Zlo vyžaduje potrestání oběti.“
Originál: (en) Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
Zdroj: [DeVoon, Wolf, 2007, Laissez Faire Law, Lulu.com, 36, angličtina]
Zdroj: [Exley, Helen, Pro klid v duši 365 : Citáty na každý den, Zuzana Pavlová, Slovart, Praha, 2018, 368, 978-80-7529-518-7, 315]
„Identifikujte dominantní filosofii ve společnosti a můžete předvídat její budoucnost.“
Zdroj: naefar.cz, 2020-02-02 https://naefar.cz/hodnoceni-recenze/atlasova-vzpoura-ayn-rand/ [cit. 2022-06-18]
Ayn Rand: Citáty anglicky
“The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.”
Ayn Rand kniha Anthem
Varianta: The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them (pg. 52).
Zdroj: Anthem
Ayn Rand kniha The Fountainhead
Zdroj: The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand kniha Atlas Shrugged
Zdroj: Atlas Shrugged
“Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.”
Ayn Rand kniha The Virtue of Selfishness
The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)
Kontext: Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man's genetic lineage—the notion that a man's intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors.
Apollo and Dionysus (1969)
Kontext: [The hippies] were told that love - indiscriminate love for one's fellow man - is the highest virtue, and they obeyed. They were told that the merging of one's self with a herd, tribe, or community is the noblest way for a man to live, and they obeyed. There isn't a philosophical idea of today's establishment which they have not accepted, which they do not share. When they discovered this philosophy did not work, because in fact it cannot work, the hippies had neither the wit nor the courage to challenge it. They found, instead, an outlet for their impotent frustration by accusing their elders of hypocrisy, as if hypocrisy were the only obstacle to the realization of their dreams. And, left blindly, helplessly lobotomized in the face of an inexplicable reality that is not amenable to their feelings, they have no recourse but the shouting of obscenities at anything that frustrates their whims; at man, or at the rainy sky, indiscriminately, with no concept of the difference. It is typical of today's culture that the proponents of seething, raging hostility are taken as advocates of love.
“You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated”
Ayn Rand kniha The Fountainhead
Zdroj: The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand kniha The Fountainhead
Zdroj: The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand kniha Atlas Shrugged
Zdroj: Atlas Shrugged
“Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.”
Ayn Rand kniha The Fountainhead
Zdroj: The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand kniha Atlas Shrugged
Zdroj: Atlas Shrugged
“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.”
Ayn Rand kniha Atlas Shrugged
Zdroj: Atlas Shrugged
“There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.”
Ayn Rand kniha Atlas Shrugged
Zdroj: Atlas Shrugged
“Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!”
Ayn Rand kniha The Fountainhead
Zdroj: The Fountainhead
“If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.”
Ayn Rand kniha Atlas Shrugged
Zdroj: Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand kniha Atlas Shrugged
Zdroj: Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand kniha The Fountainhead
Zdroj: The Fountainhead
