Ayn Rand citáty

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„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.“

“In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.”

“For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.”

“Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.”

“If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.”

“But there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you--knowing that it's the good, needing it and punishing you for it. Don't let it break you when you discover that.”

“People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too… Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose.”

“There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.”

“Don't think. Believe. Trust your heart, not your brain. Don't think. Feel. Believe.”

“No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.”

“Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.”

“The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.”

“Toohey: "Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us."
Roark: "But I don't think of you.”

“I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.”

“I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure.”

“I think. I am. I will.”

“Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.”

“Worry is a waste of emotional reserve".”

“A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others.”

“Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.”

“The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.”

“There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.”

“Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth.”

“Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart”

“We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.”

“every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.”

“Guilt is a rope that wears thin.”

“A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.”

“I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life.”

“Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned.”