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
“A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom.”
Varianta: A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
Zdroj: The Fountainhead
“We'll meet again. We'll meet when years have passed, and years make such a difference, don't they?”
Zdroj: We the Living
Zdroj: The Early Ayn Rand: A Selection from Her Unpublished Fiction
“I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.”
Zdroj: The Fountainhead
“There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises.”
Zdroj: Atlas Shrugged
“She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.”
Zdroj: The Fountainhead
“There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.”
Zdroj: The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (1971), p. 123
Varianta: Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
Zdroj: Atlas Shrugged
“There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.”
Zdroj: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
“It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much.”
Zdroj: The Fountainhead
Zdroj: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism