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
“What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.”
Ayn Rand kniha Atlas Shrugged
Zdroj: Atlas Shrugged
“Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.”
Ayn Rand kniha The Fountainhead
Zdroj: The Fountainhead
“It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.”
Ayn Rand kniha Atlas Shrugged
Zdroj: Atlas Shrugged
Zdroj: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
“Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.”
Ayn Rand kniha The Fountainhead
Zdroj: The Fountainhead
“In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.”
Ayn Rand kniha Atlas Shrugged
Zdroj: Atlas Shrugged
“One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.”
Ayn Rand kniha The Fountainhead
Zdroj: The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand kniha Atlas Shrugged
Zdroj: Atlas Shrugged
“Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.”
Ayn Rand kniha Atlas Shrugged
Zdroj: Atlas Shrugged
“But you see, the measure of hell you're able to endure is the measure of your love.”
Ayn Rand kniha Atlas Shrugged
Zdroj: Atlas Shrugged
“I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.”
Ayn Rand kniha The Fountainhead
Zdroj: The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand kniha The Fountainhead
Zdroj: The Fountainhead
“Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's individual value-judgments.”
Ayn Rand kniha The Fountainhead
Zdroj: The Romantic Manifesto (1969), Chapter 1 ("The Psycho-Epistemology of Art")
Zdroj: The Fountainhead
“The most depraved type of human being… (is) the man without a purpose.”
Ayn Rand kniha Atlas Shrugged
Varianta: Fransisco, what's the most depraved type of human being?
-The man without purpose.
Zdroj: Atlas Shrugged
“Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.”
Ayn Rand kniha Atlas Shrugged
Zdroj: Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand kniha Atlas Shrugged
Zdroj: Atlas Shrugged
“The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.”
Ayn Rand kniha Atlas Shrugged
Zdroj: Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand kniha The Fountainhead
Zdroj: The Fountainhead
“It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.”
Ayn Rand kniha Atlas Shrugged
Zdroj: Atlas Shrugged
