--- title: "10 John Galt Quotes By Ayn Rand" description: "10 John Galt quotes by Ayn Rand. Plus more from Ayn Rand and more John Galt sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/449/ayn-rand-59_first-lines_who-is-john-galt-129994_129994.jpg" --- > [“Who is John Galt?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/who-is-john-galt/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/449/ayn-rand-59_first-lines_who-is-john-galt-129994_129994.jpg) > [“Of course I'm all right, professor. I had to be. A is A."- John Galt”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/of-course-i-m-all-right-professor-i-had-to-be-a-is-a-john-galt/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5d/ayn-rand-59_teachers_of-course-i-m-all-right-professor-i-had_1811988.jpg) > [“Get the hell out of my way!" Said by John Galt as the leaders of the country tried to make him become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/get-the-hell-out-of-my-way-said-by-john-galt-as-the-leaders-of-the/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59c/ayn-rand-59_dictator_get-the-hell-out-of-my-way-said-by-john_2265837.jpg) > [“Your mind is your only judge of truth--and if others dissent your verdict, reality is the final court of appeal. John Galt”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/your-mind-is-your-only-judge-of-truth-and-if-others-dissent-your/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e2/ayn-rand-59_psychology_your-mind-is-your-only-judge-of-truth-an_2771359.jpg) > [“Make no mistake about the character of mystics. To undercut your consciousness has always been their only purpose throughout the ages -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/make-no-mistake-about-the-character-of-mystics-to-undercut-your/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/219/ayn-rand-59_failure_make-no-mistake-about-the-character-of-m_2924363.jpg) > [John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/john-galt-is-prometheus-who-changed-his-mind-after-centuries-of-being/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56d/ayn-rand-59_broke_john-galt-is-prometheus-who-changed-his_2255346.jpg) > [“John Galt spent years looking for it. He crossed oceans, and he crossed deserts, and he went down into forgotten mines, miles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/john-galt-spent-years-looking-for-it-he-crossed-oceans-and-he-crossed/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0e/ayn-rand-59_fountain-of-youth_john-galt-spent-years-looking-for-it-he_519622.jpg) > [“I'd like to think that I am wrong, that those words mean nothing, that there's no conscious intention and no avenger behind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/i-d-like-to-think-that-i-am-wrong-that-those-words-mean-nothing-that/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/351/ayn-rand-59_human-race_i-d-like-to-think-that-i-am-wrong-that-t_1238322.jpg) > [“The reporters who came to the press conference in the office of the John Galt Line were young men who had been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/the-reporters-who-came-to-the-press-conference-in-the-office-of-the/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a6/ayn-rand-59_journalism_the-reporters-who-came-to-the-press-conf_2731567.jpg) > [“I can answer it,” he said. “I can tell you who is John Galt.” “Really? Everybody seems to know him, but they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/i-can-answer-it-he-said-i-can-tell-you-who-is-john-galt-really/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a3/ayn-rand-59_quote_i-can-answer-it-he-said-i-can-tell-you-w_1346115.jpg) ## More by Ayn Rand > [There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/there-are-no-white-lies-there-is-only-the-blackest-of-destruction-and/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-watched-the-prairies-the-rivers-the-towns-slipping-past-at-an/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/this-was-reality-she-thought-this-sense-of-clear-outlines-of-purpose/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/a-collective-mind-does-not-exist-it-is-merely-the-sum-of-endless/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/lobbying-is-the-activity-of-attempting-to-influence-legislation-by/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-moved-her-hand-and-let-it-rest-against-his-he-did-not-withdraw/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/this-miracle-of-me-is-mine-to-own-and-keep-and-mine-to-guard-and-mine/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/there-was-still-one-response-the-greatest-that-she-had-missed-she/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/inflation-is-not-caused-by-the-actions-of-private-citizens-but-by-the/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“We are fornicating in the sight of six billion people.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/we-are-fornicating-in-the-sight-of-six-billion-people/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-was-fifteen-when-it-occurred-to-her-for-the-first-time-that-women/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/fransisco-you-re-some-kind-of-very-high-nobility-aren-t-you-he/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/have-you-felt-it-too-have-you-seen-how-your-best-friends-love/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/every-coercive-monopoly-was-created-by-government-intervention-into/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/we-are-all-brothers-under-the-skin-and-i-for-one-would-be-willing-to/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/john-galt/ayn-rand/#itemlist", "name": "10 John Galt Quotes By Ayn Rand", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Who is John Galt?”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ayn Rand" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/who-is-john-galt/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/449/ayn-rand-59_first-lines_who-is-john-galt-129994_129994.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/449/ayn-rand-59_first-lines_who-is-john-galt-129994_129994.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/449/ayn-rand-59_first-lines_who-is-john-galt-129994_129994.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Who is John Galt?” — Ayn Rand", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Of course I'm all right, professor. 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