Ayn Rand: Frases en inglés (página 2)

Fuente: Anthem

Fuente: Anthem (1937)

Journals of Ayn Rand (1997)

The Romantic Manifesto (1969)

The Ayn Rand Column ‘Introducing Objectivism’

Fuente: Atlas Shrugged

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)

Fuente: Atlas Shrugged

Fuente: Anthem

Variante: The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them (pg. 52).
Fuente: Anthem

Fuente: Atlas Shrugged

Fuente: The Fountainhead

Fuente: The Fountainhead

Fuente: Atlas Shrugged

Fuente: Atlas Shrugged

The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)
Contexto: Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man's genetic lineage—the notion that a man's intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors.

Apollo and Dionysus (1969)
Contexto: [The hippies] were told that love - indiscriminate love for one's fellow man - is the highest virtue, and they obeyed. They were told that the merging of one's self with a herd, tribe, or community is the noblest way for a man to live, and they obeyed. There isn't a philosophical idea of today's establishment which they have not accepted, which they do not share. When they discovered this philosophy did not work, because in fact it cannot work, the hippies had neither the wit nor the courage to challenge it. They found, instead, an outlet for their impotent frustration by accusing their elders of hypocrisy, as if hypocrisy were the only obstacle to the realization of their dreams. And, left blindly, helplessly lobotomized in the face of an inexplicable reality that is not amenable to their feelings, they have no recourse but the shouting of obscenities at anything that frustrates their whims; at man, or at the rainy sky, indiscriminately, with no concept of the difference. It is typical of today's culture that the proponents of seething, raging hostility are taken as advocates of love.