Discard the protective rags of that vice which you called a virtue: humility. Learn to value yourself, which means: to FIGHT for your happiness, and when you learn that pride is the sum of all virtues, you will learn to… — John Galt Copy Share Image
From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes , a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in Scotland is… — John Galt Copy Share
Your mind is your only judge of truth-and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal. — John Galt Copy Share
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… — John Galt Copy Share
Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it. — John Galt Copy Share
A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved. — John Galt Copy Share
I do not enter discussions with neighbors who think they can forbid me to think. I do not place my moral sanction upon a… — John Galt Copy Share
I want every fan of Rand to hear [Polaha] say the classic Galt phrase: “I swear by my life and my love of it… — John Galt Copy Share
If enjoyment is a value, why is it moral when experienced by others, but immoral when experienced by you?... Why is it immoral for… — John Galt Copy Share
“The royal borough of Chucky Stanes, like every other town of the kind, enjoys an undue proportion of ladies in a state of single… — John Galt Copy Share
An attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than… — John Galt Copy Share
There can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion. An emotion is a response to a fact of reality, an estimate… — John Galt Copy Share