Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

When the common good of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members, it means that the good of some men takes precedence over the good of others, with those others consigned to the status of sacrificial animals.

Through the dry phases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the hard, exhilarating pleasure of action.

This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having felt everything one could feel.

Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.

Today we have discovered the word that could not be said. "I

Look around you and look at history. You will see the achievements of man’s mind. You will see man’s unlimited potentiality for greatness, and the faculty that makes it possible. You will see that man is not a helpless monster by nature, but he becomes one when he discards that faculty: his mind. And if you ask me, what is greatness? I will answer, it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.