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
“The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values.”
Quelle: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
The Fountainhead (1943).
Quelle: Atlas Shrugged
Kontext: That particular sense of sacred rapture men say they experience in contemplating nature- I've never received it from nature, only from. Buildings, Skyscrapers. I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. The shapes and the thought that made them. The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need? And then people tell me about pilgrimages to some dank pest-hole in a jungle where they go to do homage to a crumbling temple, to a leering stone monster with a pot belly, created by some leprous savage. Is it beauty and genius they want to see? Do they seek a sense of the sublime? Let them come to New York, stand on the shore of the Hudson, look and kneel. When I see the city from my window - no, I don't feel how small I am - but I feel that if a war came to threaten this, I would like to throw myself into space, over the city, and protect these buildings with my body.
“I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.”
Quelle: We the Living
“How do you always manage to decide?"
"How can you let others decide for you?”
Quelle: The Fountainhead
Journals of Ayn Rand (1997)
Q and A session following her address to the graduating class of The United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, March 6, 1974 - found in Endgame: Resistance, by Derrick Jensen, Seven Stories Press, 2006, pg 220
“Choose Your Issues,” The Objectivist Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1962)
Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, 2009, p. 100
“Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.”
The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)
Question period following Lecture 11 of Leonard Peikoff's series "The Philosophy of Objectivism," 1976