John Galt Quotes

I want every fan of Rand to hear [Polaha] say the classic Galt phrase: “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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not.

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

As there can be no causeless wealth, so there can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion.

Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love-he was not man.

It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering.

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.

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

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

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.

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

I will stop the motor of the world.

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.

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