Ayn Rand: Cytaty po angielsku

Ayn Rand była amerykańska pisarka pochodzenia rosyjskiego, filozof. Cytaty po angielsku.
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“When the common good of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members, it means that the good of some men takes precedence over the good of others, with those others consigned to the status of sacrificial animals.”

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Ayn Rand książka Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)

“I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.”

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Ayn Rand książka Źródło

Źródło: The Fountainhead

“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”

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Ayn Rand książka Źródło

Wariant: The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see
Źródło: The Fountainhead

“Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. You're here. It's our time and our life, not theirs. Don't struggle not to be happy. You are."

- John Gault”

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Ayn Rand książka Atlas zbuntowany

Źródło: Atlas Shrugged

“Any group or “collective,” large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members.”

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Ayn Rand książka Cnota egoizmu

The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)

“There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it—it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it—you don't know what right is and you're not a man.”

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Ayn Rand

We The Living (1936)
Źródło: We The Living Part One Chapter 6

“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”

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Ayn Rand książka Źródło

Źródło: The Fountainhead

“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”

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Ayn Rand książka Atlas zbuntowany

Źródło: Atlas Shrugged

“Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.”

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Ayn Rand

“The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.”

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Ayn Rand

Źródło: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

“Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.”

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Ayn Rand książka Źródło

Źródło: The Fountainhead

“Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.”

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Ayn Rand książka Atlas zbuntowany

Źródło: Atlas Shrugged

“A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.”

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Ayn Rand

“I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.”

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Ayn Rand książka Anthem

Wariant: Know what you want in life and go after it. I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals, and I loathe humanity, for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
Źródło: Anthem