Top 99 Galt Quotes
#1. In the middle column, the colony ships she and her fleet had taken: the Bedyadat Jadida, out of Luna. The John Galt and the Mark Watney, out of Mars. The
James S.A. Corey
#2. Of course I'm all right, professor. I had to be. A is A.- John Galt
Ayn Rand
#4. John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains - and he withdrew his fire - until the day when men withdraw their vultures.
Ayn Rand
#5. Get the hell out of my way! Said by John Galt as the leaders of the country tried to make him become their dictator.
Ayn Rand
#6. This country was not built... by men who sought handouts. John Galt speech, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
Alex Ayres
#7. They did not speak. Once, she said suddenly, "Mr. Galt." "Yes?" "No. Nothing. I just wanted to know whether you were still there." "I will always be there.
Ayn Rand
#8. They have taught man that he is a hopeless misfit made of two elements, both symbols of death. A body without a soul is a corpse, a soul without a body is a ghost- yet such is their image of man's nature: the battleground of a struggle between a corpse and a ghost, (john Galt)
Ayn Rand
#9. He shrugged. "Who is John Galt?" "Oh, don't use gutter language!
Anonymous
#10. And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?
John Galt
Ayn Rand
#11. What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.
Ayn Rand
#12. Make no mistake about the character of mystics. To undercut your consciousness has always been their only purpose throughout the ages - and power, the power to rule you by force, has always been their only lust (John Galt)
Ayn Rand
#13. Man's life is the standard of morality, but your own life is its purpose . If existence on earth is your goal, you must choose your actions and values by the standard of that which is proper to man - for the purpose of preserving, fulfilling and enjoying the irreplaceable value which is your life.
Ayn Rand
#14. It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.
Ayn Rand
#15. I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.
Ayn Rand
#16. His face gave her nothing in answer: it had that look of respectful severity with which a man stands before the fact that the truth is the truth.
Ayn Rand
#17. It was a sudden, stunned state of quiet drunkenness, complete in itself, their hair mingled like the rays of two bodies in space that had achieved their meeting, she saw that he walked with his eyes closed, as if even sight would now be an intrusion.
Ayn Rand
#18. The anti-mind is the anti-life.
Ayn Rand
#19. I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
Ayn Rand
#20. I seek no values by means of evil, nor do I surrender my values to evil.
John Galt
#21. I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.
Ayn Rand
#22. I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values.
Ayn Rand
#23. Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.
Ayn Rand
#24. In a word, man in London is not quite so good a creature as he is out of it.
John Galt
#25. The sound of his voice was an overwhelming relief, like remembering the name of a beloved song or returning to a childhood haunt to find it totally unchanged. Did he not fee the same swell of relief? Or was he just better at hiding it?
Galt Niederhoffer
#26. This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.
Ayn Rand
#27. Every form of causeless self-doubt, every feeling of inferiority and secret unworthiness is, in fact, man's hidden dread of his inability to deal with existence.
John Galt
#28. But as always, the distance between them gave way to a need to be closer.
Galt Niederhoffer
#29. Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.
John Galt
#30. She had caught the sound of suffering in the faintest exaggeration of evenness in his voice.
Ayn Rand
#31. There was no one
nothing else in the world
that had this unbelievable effect on him: thrilling electrification. But just as soon as he acknowledged this gift, he sought to destroy it.
Galt Niederhoffer
#32. The choice
the dedication to one's highest potential
is made by accepting the fact that the noblest act you have ever performed is the act of your mind in the process of grasping that two and two make four.
John Galt
#33. He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done.
Ayn Rand
#34. Your mind is your only judge of truth-and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal.
John Galt
#35. No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.
Ayn Rand
#36. The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle.
John Galt
#37. If enjoyment is a value, why is it moral when experienced by others, but immoral when experienced by you? ... Why is it immoral for your to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep it, but moral to give it away?
John Galt
#38. If anything was, that the world will always
it can only
disappoint.
Galt Niederhoffer
#39. I don't think I have some special gift for knowing what's in your heart. I think we both do.
Galt Niederhoffer
#40. She sat beside him in the car, feeling no desire to speak, knowing that neither of them could conceal the meaning of their silence.
Ayn Rand
#41. Evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us.
John Galt
#42. I will stop the motor of the world.
John Galt
#43. Betrayal lived in a separate realm than sex, a realm that was far more innocent, and far more erotic.
Galt Niederhoffer
#44. Time passed at an accelerated pace. They could be sitting in traffic or talking on the phone or waiting in line for a movie, and their time felt precious, important, worthwhile.
Galt Niederhoffer
#45. She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals with the mind.
Ayn Rand
#46. It was that ruthless tone, peculiarly his, which sounded implacable by being simple, devoid of any emotional value, save the quality of respect for facts.
Ayn Rand
#47. To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes.
Ayn Rand
#48. Reason is your means of survival - so that for you, who are a human being, the question 'to be or not to be' is the question 'to think or not to think..'.
Ayn Rand
#49. And she had been in love enough times to rule out the possibility that this was merely some feat of nostalgia.
Galt Niederhoffer
#50. There is a morality of reason, a morality proper to man, and Man's Life is its standard of value.
All that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; all that which destroys it is the evil.
Ayn Rand
#51. There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity.
Galt Niederhoffer
#52. Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.
Ayn Rand
#53. I'll warn you now that there is one word which is forbidden in this valley: the word 'give.
Ayn Rand
#54. An attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality.
John Galt
#55. A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved.
John Galt
#56. Since life requires a specific course of action, any other course will destroy it. A being who does not hold his own life as the motive and goal of his actions, is acting on the motive and standard of death.
Ayn Rand
#57. It was as if he were a single whole, grasped by her first glance at him, like some irreducible absolute, like an axiom not to be explained any further, as if she knew everything about him by direct perception, and what awaited her now was only the process of identifying her knowledge.
Ayn Rand
#58. Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.
Ayn Rand
#59. The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.
Ayn Rand
#60. To rule without being felt ... is the great mystery of policy.
John Galt
#61. All property and all forms of wealth are produced by man's mind and labor.
John Galt
#62. Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor
by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence
and every achievement is an expression of it.
Ayn Rand
#63. It is our duty to help ane anither in this howling wilderness.
John Galt
#64. If any part of your uncertainty is a conflict between your heart and your mind - follow your mind.
Ayn Rand
#65. Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
Ayn Rand
#66. I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
Ayn Rand
#67. John, the self-made man, self-made in every sense, out of nowhere, penniless, parentless, tie-less ... but I've always thought of him as if he had come into the world like Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, who sprang forth from Jupiter's head, fully grown and fully armed.
Ayn Rand
#68. Do not cry that it is our duty to serve you. We do not recognize such duty. Do not cry that you need us. We do not consider need a claim. Do not cry that you own us. You don't.
Ayn Rand
#69. She was not brokenhearted because the relationship had ended suddenly; she was brokenhearted because it had never truly ended.
Galt Niederhoffer
#70. A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong?
Ayn Rand
#72. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.
Ayn Rand
#73. I think, therefore I'll think.
Ayn Rand
#74. We will not deal with men on any terms but ours - and our terms are a moral code which holds that man is an end in himself and not the means to any end of others. We do not seek to force our code upon them. They are free to believe what they please.
Ayn Rand
#75. 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.
Ayn Rand
#76. Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of existence which is the content of a human consciousness when it attempts to abandon reason. Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.
Ayn Rand
#77. He began to view writing as a petty ambition, a frivolous and indulgent whim, creativity itself as the pathology of the very young or very stupid.
Galt Niederhoffer
#78. Was it possible there was some fatal flaw in their matching, that they were ultimately, impossibly different
dissimilar enough to fall in love, but too fundamentally distinct to stay together?
Galt Niederhoffer
#79. You have sacrificed justice to mercy. You have sacrificed independence to unity. You have sacrificed reason to faith. You have sacrificed wealth to need. You have sacrificed self-esteem to self-denial. You have sacrificed happiness to duty.
Ayn Rand
#80. Occasionally, she wondered if all couples struggled so much to understand one another, spoke so little at dinner together, spent so much time camped out in front of the TV. Did all women sometimes feel distanced from their man while they were making love?
Galt Niederhoffer
#81. Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.
Ayn Rand
#82. If there are degrees of evil, it is hard to say who is more contemptible: the brute who assumes the right to force the mind of others or the moral degenerate who grants to others the right to force his mind.
John Galt
#83. The map was just an accessory. She knew exactly where she was.
Galt Niederhoffer
#84. Life is a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action. If an organism fails in that action, it dies...It is only the concept of 'Life' that makes the concept of 'Value' possible. It is only to a living entity that things can be good or evil.
Ayn Rand
#85. Their looks and personalities were still intact, but some thing had atrophied ever so slightly. Their faces bore the distinct wear of goals gone too long unfulfilled.
Galt Niederhoffer
#86. A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms.
John Galt
#87. When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
Ragnar Galt
#88. The state of being lost, he seemed to imply, granted him a kind of freedom.
Galt Niederhoffer
#89. There can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion. An emotion is a response to a fact of reality, an estimate dictated by your standards.
John Galt
#90. Our first rule here ... is that one must always see for oneself.
Ayn Rand
#91. Not to speak would have infused the moment with more meaning than it deserved.
Galt Niederhoffer
#92. We get back our met as we measure,
We cannot do wrong and feel right,
Or can we give pain, and gain pleasure . . .
And sometimes the things our life misses,
Helps more than the thing which it gets . . .
Alice Carey
G.G. Galt
#93. There is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires - if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical?
Ayn Rand
#94. Rivalry glued the girls together in a way that regular contact could not.
Galt Niederhoffer
#95. To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.
Ayn Rand
#96. I have never felt guilty of my ability. I have never felt guilty of my mind. I have never felt guilty of being a man. I accepted no unearned guilt, and thus was free to earn and to know my own value.
Ayn Rand
#97. No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.
John Galt
#98. Do not let the hero in your soul parish, in lonely frustration, for the life you deserved but never have been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
Ayn Rand
#99. She felt an odd, light-hearted indifference, as if she suddenly wanted nothing but the comfort of surrendering to helplessness.
Ayn Rand
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