110 ordspråk av Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand föddes den February 2nd 1905 och dog den 6 March 1982 - US writer
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 America's abundance was not created 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 |
| And what is the state but a servant and a convenience for a large number of people, just like the electric light and the plumbing system? And wouldn't it be preposterous to claim that men must exist for their plumbing, not the plumbing for the men. |
| Art is too serious to be taken seriously. |
| Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth. |
| 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. |
| Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. |
| Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though this system has given men the greatest material comforts |
| Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. |
| Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads |
| Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics -- a rational ethics -- as a precondition of rebirth. |
| Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. |
| Every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise |
| Evil requires the sanction of the victim. |
| Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins. |
| From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man -- the function of his reasoning mind. |
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Born (10495 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
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