Ayn Rand: Cytaty po angielsku

Ayn Rand była amerykańska pisarka pochodzenia rosyjskiego, filozof. Cytaty po angielsku.
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“So long as [men] hold the tribal notion that the individual is sacrificial fodder for the collective, that some men have the right to rule others by force, and that some (any) alleged 'good' can justify It — there can be no peace ‘within’ a nation and no peace among nations.”

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Ayn Rand książka Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)

“I hope you will understand my hesitation in writing to one whom I admire as the greatest representative of a philosophy to which I want to dedicate my whole life.”

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Ayn Rand

Letter to H.L. Mencken July 28, 1934.

“It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.”

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Ayn Rand książka Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)

“Capitalism is the only system where such men are free to function and where progress is accompanied, not by forced privations, but by a constant rise in the general level of prosperity, of consumption and of enjoyment of life.”

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Ayn Rand książka Cnota egoizmu

The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)

“When a man declares: "There are no blacks and whites [in morality]" he is making a psychological confession, and what he means is: "I am unwilling to be wholly good—and please don't regard me as wholly evil!"”

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Ayn Rand książka Cnota egoizmu

The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)

“Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.”

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Ayn Rand książka Cnota egoizmu

The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)

“Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.”

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Ayn Rand książka The Romantic Manifesto

Źródło: The Romantic Manifesto (1969), Chapter 3 ("Art and Cognition")

“The second handers offer substitutes for competence such as love, charm, kindness - easy substitutes - and there is no substitute for creation.”

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Ayn Rand

Journals of Ayn Rand (1997)

“When I say “capitalism,” I mean a full, pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism—with a separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of state and church.”

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Ayn Rand książka Cnota egoizmu

The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)

“There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.”

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Ayn Rand książka Philosophy: Who Needs It

Philosophy: Who Needs It (1982)

“Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of competitors into a given field, by legislative action.”

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Ayn Rand książka The Voice of Reason

The Voice of Reason (1989)

“If you mean whose side one should be on, Israel or the Arabs, I would certainly say Israel because it’s the advanced, technological, civilized country amidst a group of almost totally primitive savages who have not changed for years and who are racist and who resent Israel because it’s bringing industry, intelligence, and modern technology into their stagnation.”

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Q and A session during taping of Donohue, Live in New York (1979) Ayn Rand on Israel and the Middle East https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uHSv1asFvU

“An individualist is a man who says: "I'll not run anyone's life – nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule nor be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone – nor sacrifice anyone to myself."”

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Textbook of Americanism http://laissez-fairerepublic.com/textbook.htm (1946).

“The actions of all group leaders throughout history have had one common element: altruism - common good of the collective. Religious leaders and the "moral" majority condemn the likes of Hitler, Stalin, etc. but their movements and foundations are alike.”

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Journals of Ayn Rand (1997)

“[On the attendees at the launch of Apollo 11] Those people were not a stampeding herd, nor a manipulated mob; they did not wreck the Florida communities, they did not devastate the countryside, they did not throw themselves, like whining thugs, at the mercy of their victims - they did not create any victims. They came as responsible individuals able to project the reality of two or three days ahead, and to provide for their own needs. There were people of every age, creed, color, educational level and economic status. They lived and slept in tents, or in their cars, some for several days, in great discomfort and unbearable heat; they did it gamely, cheerfully, gaily; they projected a general feeling of confident goodwill, the bond of a common enthusiasm; they created a public spectacle of responsible privacy - and they departed as they had come, without benefit of press agents.”

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Apollo and Dionysus (1969)

“Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and benefit. This is not immoral, but the highest of morality.”

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Journals of Ayn Rand (1997)

“The most profound breach in this country is not between the rich and the poor, but between the people and the intellectuals. In their view of life, the American people are predominantly Apollonian. The mainstream intellectuals are Dionysian. This means the people are reality-oriented, common sense-oriented, technology-oriented. The intellectuals call this "materialistic," and "middle-class." The intellectuals are emotion-oriented, and seek in panic an escape from a reality they are unable to deal with, and from a technological civilization that ignores their feelings.”

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Apollo and Dionysus (1969)

“Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind.”

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Ayn Rand książka The Voice of Reason

The Voice of Reason (1989)

“America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way.”

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Ayn Rand książka Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)

“The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.”

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Ayn Rand książka Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)