68 Quotes About John-galt

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

For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? This is John Galt speaking. I am the man who loves his life.

No one’s happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

If any part of your uncertainty is a conflict between your heart and your mind—follow your mind.

...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.

Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.

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.

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.

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.