John Galt Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• 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 animal. Man has to be man-by choice; he has to hold his life as a value-by choice; he has to learn to sustain it-by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues-by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.

  John Galt

  Suicidal, Animal, Men

• I seek no values by means of evil, nor do I surrender my values to evil.

  John Galt

  Mean, Evil, Surrender

• Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned-that of any achievements open to you, the one that makes all others possible is the creation of your own character-that your character, your actions, your desires, your emotions are the products of the premises held by your mind.

  John Galt

  Character, Pride, Men

• If enjoyment is a value, why is it moral when experienced by others, but immoral when experienced by you?... Why is it immoral for your to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep it, but moral to give it away?

  John Galt

  Giving, Desire, Moral

• 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.

  John Galt

  Reality, Mind, Gains

• Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love-he was not man.

  John Galt

  Men, Garden, Eden

• 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 live like a man.

  John Galt

  Mean, Humility, Fighting

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