Ayn Rand idézet

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„Az individualista olyan ember, aki azt mondja: "Nem irányítom senki életét - és nem is hagyom, hogy bárki irányítsa az enyémet. Nem fogok uralkodni, és nem is hagyom, hogy uralkodjanak rajtam. Nem leszek sem úr, sem rabszolga. Nem áldozom fel magam senkinek - és nem áldozok fel senkit magamnak."”

„Minden fejlődés az egyének munkájának köszönhető.”

„A kérdés nem az, hogy ki fog hagyni engem, hanem az, hogy ki fog megállítani.”

“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.”