History Quotes / AtlasShrugged

->'''[[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Bert:]]''' Uh... have you read her? Rand. ''Atlas Shrugged''. That's the one.\\
'''[[TheStoic Don:]]''' [[SureLetsGoWithThat Yes. Yes, it is]].\\

-->-- '''[[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Rogers John Rogers]]'''[[note]]writer of Film/Catwoman2004 and Film/{{Transformers}}[[/note]]

-->-- '''John Scalzi''', [[http://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/10/01/what-i-think-about-atlas-shrugged/ on his blog]]

!!Quotes from ''Atlas Shrugged''

-> ''"Do not hide behind the cowardly evasion that man is born with free will, but with a 'tendency' to evil. A free will saddled with a tendency is like a game with loaded dice."''

-> ''"To fear to face an issue is to believe the worst is true."''

-> ''"For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? [[AuthorFilibuster This is John Galt speaking.]] I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values. I am the man who has deprived you of victims and thus has destroyed your world, and if you wish to know why you are perishing – you who dread knowledge – I am the man who will now tell you. [...] 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."''

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!!Quotes about ''Atlas Shrugged''

'''[[TheStoic Don]]:''' [[SureLetsGoWithThat Yes. Yes, it is]].\\

-> ''"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 upon his shoulders – What would you tell him? ...To shrug."''
-->--'''Francisco D'Anconia'''
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-> ''"Do not hide behind the cowardly evasion that man is born with free will, but with a “tendency” to evil. A free will saddled with a tendency is like a game with loaded dice."''

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-> ''"I enjoy Atlas Shrugged quite a bit, and will re-read it every couple of years when I feel in the mood...That said, it's a totally ridiculous book which can be summed up as ''Sociopathic idealized nerds collapse society because they don't get enough hugs.''"''

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-> '''[[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Bert]]:''' Uh... have you read her? Rand. ''Atlas Shrugged''. That's the one.\\

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-> '''Officer Barbrady''': At first I was happy to be learning how to read. It seemed exciting and magical, but then I read this: ''Atlas Shrugged'' by Creator/AynRand. I read every last word of this garbage, and because of this piece of shit, I'm never reading again.
-> '''Stan and Kyle''': Hooray for Barbrady!

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-> ''"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: Literature/TheLordOfTheRings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. [[BaitAndSwitchComparison The other, of course, involves orcs.]]"''

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-> ''"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. [[BaitAndSwitchComment It should be thrown with great force.]]"''

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->''"...Dagny pulls rank and orders them to drive through the red light. This, in Rand's world, is the mark of a heroic and decisive capitalist, rather than the kind of person who in the real world would soon be the subject of headlines like'' "22 Dead in Train Collision Caused by Executive Who Didn't Want to Be Late For Meeting."

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->''"From almost any page of Atlas Shrugged, a voice can be heard, from painful necessity, commanding: "To a gas chamber -- go!"''

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->''"I had a hard time with Ayn Rand because I found myself enthusiastically agreeing with the first 90% of every sentence, but getting lost at "therefore, be a huge asshole to everyone.""''

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-> ''"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 upon his shoulders - What would you tell him? ...To shrug."''

-> ''"For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? [[AuthorFilibuster This is John Galt speaking.]] I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values. I am the man who has deprived you of victims and thus has destroyed your world, and if you wish to know why you are perishing-you who dread knowledge-I am the man who will now tell you. [...] 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."''

-->-- '''Creator/BobHope is God''', AV Club commentator, on [[{{Film/TheHumanCentipede}} The Human Centipede II: Full Sequence]]

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', "[[Recap/SouthParkS2E4Chickenlover Chickenlover]]"

-> ''"I enjoy Atlas Shrugged quite a bit, and will re-read it every couple of years when I feel in the mood...That said, it’s a totally ridiculous book which can be summed up as ''Sociopathic idealized nerds collapse society because they don’t get enough hugs.''"''

-> '''Officer Barbrady''': At first I was happy to be learning how to read. It seemed exciting and magical, but then I read this: ''Atlas Shrugged'' by Ayn Rand. I read every last word of this garbage, and because of this piece of shit, I'm never reading again.

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', "Chickenlover"

-->-- '''Dorothy Parker'''[[note]]This has also been attributed to a review of "The Cardinal's Mistress", by none other than UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini.[[/note]]

-->-- '''Bob Hope is God''', AV Club commentator, on [[{{Film/TheHumanCentipede}} The Human Centipede II: Full Sequence]]

'''Bert:''' See, I know you haven't read it. When you hit 40, you realize you've met or seen every kind of person there is, and I know what kind you are. Because I believe [[NotSoDifferent we are alike]].\\

-->-- '''[[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Rogers John Rogers]]'''[[note]]writer of Film/{{Catwoman}} and Film/{{Transformers}}[[/note]]

-> '''Officer Barbrady''': ...At first I was happy to be learning how to read. It seemed exciting and magical, but then I read this: ''Atlas Shrugged'' by Ayn Rand. I read every last word of this garbage, and because of this piece of shit, I'm never reading again.

-->-- '''Adam Lee''' "10 Things I Learned About the World from Ayn Rand's Insane "Atlas Shrugged'", [=AlterNet=]

->''"I didn't know they came out with a sequel for Atlas Shrugged already. Good on them.."''

-> ''"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."''