John Galt Professions : NovelistBorn : May 2, 1779Died : April 11, 1839 Browse All Authors Top 32 quotes by John Galt The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle. John Galt principlesselffeet 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 gainsmindreality Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess. John Galt goalmindmen Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it. John Galt gainsmenmean 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 wish to kill me. When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him-by force. John Galt wishmenthinking I will stop the motor of the world. John Galt motorworld A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms. John Galt bodysouldoe To rule without being felt…is the great mystery of policy. John Galt policymysteryfelt The choice--the dedication to one's highest potential--is made by accepting the fact that the noblest act you have ever performed is the act of your mind in the process of grasping that two and two make four. John Galt dedicationchoicestwo From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes , a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in Scotland is more flexible than in England. The truth however is, that an elementary difference exists in the public feelings of the two nations quite as great as in the idioms of their respective dialects. The English are a justice-loving people, according to charter and statute; the Scotch are a wrong-resenting race, according to right and feeling: and the character of liberty among them takes its aspect from that peculiarity. John Galt scotlandcharactertwo 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 existence. John Galt selffeelingsmen In a word, man in London is not quite so good a creature as he is out of it. John Galt creatureslondonmen Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelistAll Authors
