Quotes About John Galt

#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

#3. Who is 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 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

#8. He shrugged. "Who is John Galt?" "Oh, don't use gutter language!

Anonymous

#9. And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?
John Galt

Ayn Rand

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. She had caught the sound of suffering in the faintest exaggeration of evenness in his voice.

Ayn Rand

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. The anti-mind is the anti-life.

Ayn Rand

#18. I seek no values by means of evil, nor do I surrender my values to evil.

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#19. I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values.

Ayn Rand

#20. 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

#21. In a word, man in London is not quite so good a creature as he is out of it.

John Galt

#22. 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

#23. 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.

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#24. Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.

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#25. Your mind is your only judge of truth-and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal.

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#26. A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved.

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#27. 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.

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#28. I'll warn you now that there is one word which is forbidden in this valley: the word 'give.

Ayn Rand

#29. Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

Ayn Rand

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

Ayn Rand

#34. 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

#35. I will stop the motor of the world.

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#36. Evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us.

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#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle.

John Galt

#40. 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.

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#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong?

Ayn Rand

#46. 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

#47. 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.

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#48. If any part of your uncertainty is a conflict between your heart and your mind - follow your mind.

Ayn Rand

#49. It is our duty to help ane anither in this howling wilderness.

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#50. All property and all forms of wealth are produced by man's mind and labor.

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#51. To rule without being felt ... is the great mystery of policy.

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#52. 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.

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#53. 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

#54. She felt an odd, light-hearted indifference, as if she suddenly wanted nothing but the comfort of surrendering to helplessness.

Ayn Rand

#55. 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.

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#56. No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.

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#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. Our first rule here ... is that one must always see for oneself.

Ayn Rand

#61. A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms.

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#62. 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

#63. 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.

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#64. Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.

Ayn Rand

#65. 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

#66. 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.

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#67. 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

#68. 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