John Galt Quotes

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• Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.
• 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…
• Evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us.
• A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms.
• A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved.
• Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.
• Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not.
• There can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion. An emotion is a response to a fact of reality, an estimate dictated…
• 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…
• 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…
• I will stop the motor of the world.
• Your mind is your only judge of truth-and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal.
• 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…
• As there can be no causeless wealth, so there can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion.
• I seek no values by means of evil, nor do I surrender my values to evil.
• An attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality.
• 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…
• Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.
• The self you have betrayed is your mind; self-esteem is reliance on one’s power to think. The ego you seek, that essential “you” which you…
• Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love-he was not man.

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