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

- 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

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

- 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

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

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

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

- John Galt

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

- John Galt

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

- John Galt