Защита Бардессы Капитализма.

[ivangoe]

Великий американский бред или Who is John Galt?

Крест — это символ пытки.
Я предпочитаю знак доллара —
символ свободной торговли
и свободного разума.

Айн Рэнд
 

PLAYBOY: You've been quoted as saying "The cross is the symbol of torture, of the sacrifice of the ideal to the nonideal. I prefer the dollar sign." Do you truly feel that two thousand years of Christianity can be summed up with the word "torture"?

[AYN] RAND: To begin with, I never said that. It's not my style. Neither literarily nor intellectually. I don't say I prefer the dollar sign -- that is cheap nonsense, and please leave this in your copy. I don't know the origin of that particular quote, but the meaning of the dollar sign is made clear in *Atlas Shrugged*. It is the symbol, clearly explained in the story, of free trade and, therefore, of a free mind. A free mind and a free economy are corollaries. One can't exist without the other. The dollar sign, as the symbol of the currency of a free country, is the symbol of the free mind. More than that, as to the historical origin of the dollar sign, although it has never been proved, one very likely hypothesis is that it stands for the initials of the United States. So much for the dollar sign.

[Playboy:Вас цитируют часто следующей фразой: "Крест — это символ пытки...Я предпочитаю знак доллара."...
Айн Рэнд: " Начнем с того что я НИКОГДА это НЕ ПРОИЗНОСИЛА..."]