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

- John Galt

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 de…

- John Galt

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 a…

- John Galt

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

- John Galt

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

- John Galt

I do not enter discussions with neighbors who think they can forbid me to think. I do not place my moral sanction upon a murderer's wish to kill me. …

- John Galt

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

- John Galt

Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice-and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal …

- John Galt

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given t…

- John Galt