The Removal Of A Threat Is Not A Payment, The Negation Of A Negative Is Not A Reward, The Withdrawal Of Your Armed Hoodlums Is Not An Incentive, The Offer Not To Murder Me Is Not A Value.

Who is John Galt? John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind.
After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains and he withdrew his fire -- until the day when men withdraw their vultures....
Who is John Galt?
Get the Hell out of my way! -- John Gal
Love is love's reward. -- John Dryde
I am, therefore I'll think. -- John Galt (Ayn Rand)
Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads.
-- John Galt, in Ayn Rand's _Atlas Shrugged_...
We are on strike. Why should this seem so startling?
There is only one kind of men who have never been on strike in human history....
Man has a single basic choice: to think or not, and that is the gauge of his virtue.
Moral perfection is an unbreached rationality -- not the degree of your intelligence, but the full and relentless use of your mind, not the extent of your knowledge, but the acceptance of reason as an absolute....