Ayn Rand citáty

strana 5

„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.“

“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”

“Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.”

“If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive?… Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.”

“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.”

“Every loneliness is a pinnacle”

“The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.”

“But what man does out of despair, is not necessarily a key to his character. I have always thought that the real key is in that which he seeks for his enjoyment.”

“The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.”

“Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking of existence.”

“We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”

“Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind.”

“Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.”

“She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common.”

“Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.”

“In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth.”

“Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't.”

“There can be no compromise on moral principles.”

“When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.”

“If you write a line of zeroes, it´s still nothing.”

“The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.”

“She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness, yet they could let each other see it without the need of protection.”

“Why no. I’m too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don’t make
comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse
to measure myself as part of anything. I’m an utter egotist.”

“Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.”

“We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.”

“I am, therefore I'll think”

“John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains—and he withdrew his fire—until the day when men withdraw their vultures.”

“There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak.”

“I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.”

“Love is our response to our highest values, and can be nothing else.”