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Ayn Rand vlastním jménem Alisa Zinověvna Rosenbaumová, rusky Алиса Зиновьевна Розенбаум byla americká spisovatelka a filosofka, která se stala známou především díky svým románům, ve kterých nastínila zcela nový filosofický systém - objektivismus, který později dále rozpracovala.

✵ 2. únor 1905 – 6. březen 1982  •  Další jména Ayn Randová, Ann Rand
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Ayn Rand nejznámější citáty

„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.“

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„Otázkou není, kdo mi to dovolí. Otázkou je, kdo mi v tom zabrání.“

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„Pravda není pro každého, ale jen pro ty, kteří ji hledají .“

Ayn Rand

„Neexistují zlé myšlenky kromě jediné: odmítání myslet.“

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„Zlo vyžaduje potrestání oběti.“

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Originál: (en) Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
Zdroj: [DeVoon, Wolf, 2007, Laissez Faire Law, Lulu.com, 36, angličtina]

„Každá forma štěstí je soukromá. Naše největší okamžiky jsou osobní, vycházejí z nás a nikdo se jich nemá dotýkat.“

Ayn Rand

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.“

Ayn Rand

Zdroj: naefar.cz, 2020-02-02 https://naefar.cz/hodnoceni-recenze/atlasova-vzpoura-ayn-rand/ [cit. 2022-06-18]

Ayn Rand: Citáty anglicky

“The hippies are the living demonstration of what it means to give up reason, and to rely on one's primeval instincts, urges, intuitions, and whims. With such tools, they are unable to grasp even what is needed to satisfy their wishes; for example, the wish to have a festival. Where would they be without the charity of the local "squares" who fed them? Where would they be without the fifty doctors rushed from New York to save their lives? Without the automobiles that brought them to the festival? Without the soda pop and beer they substituted for water? Without the helicopters that brought the entertainers? Without all the achievements of the technological civilization they denounce? Left to their own devices, they literally didn't know enough to come in out of the rain.”

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Apollo and Dionysus (1969)

“Now, I don’t care to discuss the alleged complaints American Indians have against this country. I believe, with good reason, the most unsympathetic Hollywood portrayal of Indians and what they did to the white man. They had no right to a country merely because they were born here and then acted like savages. The white man did not conquer this country…”

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Address To The Graduating Class Of The United States Military Academy at West Point, 1974

“The conservatives see man as a body freely roaming the earth, building sand piles or factories—with an electronic computer inside his skull, controlled from Washington. The liberals see man as a soul freewheeling to the farthest reaches of the universe—but wearing chains from nose to toes when he crosses the street to buy a loaf of bread.”

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Ayn Rand kniha Philosophy: Who Needs It

Philosophy: Who Needs It (1982)

“The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendor that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.”

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Ayn Rand kniha The Virtue of Selfishness

The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)

“All progress is the work of individuals.”

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Journals of Ayn Rand (1997)

“A crime is the violation of the right(s) of other men by force (or fraud). It is only the initiation of physical force against others- i. e., the recourse to violence- that can be classified as a crime in a free society (as distinguished from a civil wrong). Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.”

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Ayn Rand kniha The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution

Zdroj: The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (1971), p. 99

“I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; and I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes the supremacy of reason and applies it consistently, all the rest follows.”

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Introducing Objectivism. The Objectivist Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 8. August, 1962. p. 35.

“The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of their current irrationalities are intended to stave off and to disguise, is the unstated knowledge that Soviet Russia is the full, actual, literal, consistent embodiment of the morality of altruism, that Stalin did not corrupt a noble ideal, that this is the only way altruism has to be or can ever be practiced.”

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Ayn Rand kniha Philosophy: Who Needs It

Zdroj: Philosophy: Who Needs It (1982), p. 84.

“Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the latest demonstration, like a laboratory experiment for all to see. Yet those who are loudest in proclaiming their desire to eliminate poverty are loudest in denouncing capitalism. Man’s well-being is not their goal.”

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Ayn Rand kniha Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)

“It is fear that drives [the hippies] to seek the warmth, the protection, the safety of a herd. When they speak of merging themselves into a "greater whole," it is their fear that they hope to drown in the undemanding waves of unfastidious human bodies - and what they hope to fish out of that pool is the momentary illusion of an unearned personal significance.”

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Apollo and Dionysus (1969)

“When one observes the nightmare of the desperate efforts made by hundreds of thousands of people struggling to escape from the socialized countries of Europe, to escape over barbed-wire fences, under machine-gun fire—one can no longer believe that socialism, in any of its forms, is motivated by benevolence and by the desire to achieve men’s welfare.”

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Ayn Rand kniha The Virtue of Selfishness

The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)

“Man’s rights can be violated only by the use of physical force. It is only by means of physical force that one man can deprive another of his life, or enslave him, or rob him, or prevent him from pursuing his own goals, or compel him to act against his own rational judgment.”

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Ayn Rand kniha The Virtue of Selfishness

The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)

“Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive by any random means, as a parasite, a moocher or a looter, but not free to succeed at it beyond the range of the moment—so he is free to seek his happiness in any irrational fraud, any whim, any delusion, any mindless escape from reality, but not free to succeed at it beyond the range of the moment nor to escape the consequences.”

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Ayn Rand kniha The Virtue of Selfishness

Sometimes paraphrased as "You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality."
The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)

“Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.”

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Apollo and Dionysus (1969)

“You have all heard the old bromide to the effect that man has his eyes on the stars and his feet in the mud. It is usually taken to mean that man's reason and his physical senses are the element pulling him down to the mud while his mystical, super-rational emotions are the element that lifts him to the stars. This is the grimmest inversion of many in mankind's history. But, last summer, reality offered you a literal dramatization of the truth. It is man's irrational emotions that bring him down to the mud. It is man's reason that lifts him to the stars.”

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Apollo and Dionysus (1969)

“One of the paradoxes of our age is the fact that the intellectuals, the politicians, and all the sundry voices that choke like asthma the throat of our communications media, have never gasped and stuttered so loudly about their devotion to the public good, and about the people's will as the supreme criterion of value - and never have they been so grossly indifferent to the people. The reason, obviously, is that collectivist slogans serve as the rationalization for those who intend, not to follow the people, but to rule them.”

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Apollo and Dionysus (1969)

“Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen.”

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Ayn Rand kniha Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)

“In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate.”

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Ayn Rand kniha Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)

“The people of Algiers marched through the streets of the city, in desperate protest against the new threat of civil war, shouting: 'We want peace! We want a government!' How are they to go about getting it? Through the years of civil war, they had been united, not by any political philosophy, but only by a racial issue. They were fighting, not for any program, but only against French rule. When they won their independence, they fell apart - into rival tribes and armed 'willayas' fighting one another”

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The Ayn Rand Column 'Blind Chaos'

“Today, racism is regarded as a crime if practiced by a majority—but as an inalienable right if practiced by a minority.”

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Ayn Rand kniha The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution

Zdroj: The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (1971), p. 167

“The human race has only two unlimited capacities: one for suffering and one for lying. I want to fight religion as the root of all human lying and the only excuse for human suffering.”

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Journals of Ayn Rand (1997)

“Poverty, ignorance, illness and other problems of that kind are not metaphysical emergencies. By the metaphysical nature of man and of existence, man has to maintain his life by his own effort; the values he needs—such as wealth or knowledge—are not given to him automatically, as a gift of nature, but have to be discovered and achieved by his own thinking and work.”

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Ayn Rand kniha The Virtue of Selfishness

The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)

“There is only one thing that matters and that we'll remember. The rest doesn't matter. I don't care what life is to be nor what it does to us. But it won't break us. Neither you nor me. That's our only weapon. That's the only banner we can hold against all those others around us. That's all we have to know about the future.”

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We The Living (1936)

“The trouble with the world today is philosophical: only the right philosophy can save us. But this party plagiarizes some of my ideas, mixes them with the exact opposite—with religionists, anarchists and every intellectual misfit and scum they can find—and call themselves libertarians and run for office.”

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Rand, Ayn (2005). Mayhew, Robert, ed. Ayn Rand Answers, the Best of Her Q&A. New York: New American Library. p. 73. (1976)

“There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism—by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.”

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"Foreign Policy Drains U.S. of Main Weapon," Los Angeles Times, Sept. 9. 1962, G2 — as reported in The Ayn Rand Lexicon http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/socialism.html: Objectivism from A to Z (1986)

“An artist reveals his naked soul in his work - and so, gentle reader, do you when you respond to it.”

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Ayn Rand kniha The Romantic Manifesto

The Romantic Manifesto (1969)

“It is not good to feel too much joy, nor to be glad that our body lives. For we matter not and it must not matter to us whether we live or die, which is to be as our brothers will it. But we, Equality 7-2521, are glad to be living. If this is a vice, then we wish no virtue.”

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Ayn Rand kniha Anthem

Anthem (1937)

“There is a kind of malicious wink, a contemptuous sneer in the public voices claiming the hippies as heroes. The hippies are a desperate herd looking for a master, to be taken over by anyone - anyone who would tell them how to live without demanding the effort of thinking. Theirs is the mentality ready for a fuhrer.”

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Apollo and Dionysus (1969)

“All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.”

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Ayn Rand kniha The Virtue of Selfishness

The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)

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