Ayn Rand Berühmte Zitate
Kap. ENTWEDER - ODER, II. Die Aristokratie der Beziehungen, S. 464
Original englisch: "Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion- When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing- when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors- when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you- when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed."
Atlas Shrugged

Kap. A GLEICH A, VII. Hier spricht John Galt, S. 1190
Original englisch: "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."
Atlas Shrugged

„Um sagen zu können: »Ich liebe Dich«, muss man zunächst sagen können: »Ich«.“
S. 387)
Original engl.: "To say »I love you« one must know first how to say the »I«."
The Fountainhead
S. 461
Original engl.: "The person who loves everybody and feels at home everywhere is the true hater of mankind. He expects nothing of men, so no form of depravity can outrage him."
The Fountainhead
Zitate über Menschen von Ayn Rand
S. 715
Original engl.: "Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."
The Fountainhead
Kap. A GLEICH A, I. Atlantis, S. 822
Original englisch: "All work is an act of philosophy. And when men will learn to consider productive work - and that which is its source - as the standard of their moral values, they will reach that state of perfection which is the birthright they lost."
Atlas Shrugged
(1978) Ayn Rand Answers – The Best of Her Questions and Answers, Robert Mayhew, NAL Trade 2005, ISBN 978-0451216656
"The principle of free speech is not concerned with the content of a man's speech and does not protect only the expression of good ideas, but all ideas. If it were otherwise, who would determine which ideas are good and which are forbidden? The government? [FHF 78]" - books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=-2D6VqMXfFIC&pg=PT28&dq=government
Ayn Rand Zitate und Sprüche
„Man kann zwar die Realität ignorieren, aber nicht die Folgen davon ignorieren.“
Original engl.: "You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality."
Zugeschrieben
Kap. ENTWEDER - ODER, III. Ehrliche Erpressung, S. 510
Original englisch: "If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down on his shoulders — what would you tell him to do? [...] To shrug.”
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand: Zitate auf Englisch
“What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.”
Quelle: Atlas Shrugged
“Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.”
Quelle: The Fountainhead
“It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.”
Quelle: Atlas Shrugged
Quelle: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
“Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.”
Quelle: The Fountainhead
“In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.”
Quelle: Atlas Shrugged
“One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.”
Quelle: The Fountainhead
“Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.”
Quelle: Atlas Shrugged
“But you see, the measure of hell you're able to endure is the measure of your love.”
Quelle: Atlas Shrugged
“I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.”
Quelle: The Fountainhead
“Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's individual value-judgments.”
Quelle: The Romantic Manifesto (1969), Chapter 1 ("The Psycho-Epistemology of Art")
Quelle: The Fountainhead
“The most depraved type of human being… (is) the man without a purpose.”
Variante: Fransisco, what's the most depraved type of human being?
-The man without purpose.
Quelle: Atlas Shrugged
“Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.”
Quelle: Atlas Shrugged
“The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.”
Quelle: Atlas Shrugged
“It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.”
Quelle: Atlas Shrugged