Atlas Shrugged, Part 3 Chapter 8: The Egoist
Summary: The pull peddlers react to John Galt’s speech, mostly with denial. Dr. Stadler wants to kill Galt, but Thompson wants to make a deal with him. Dagny visits with Eddie Willers. Society continues to crumble as the leaders search for John Galt, to no avail. Dagny sought John Galt and found him in his apartment. But she was followed, so she and Galt pretended to be strangers as the military men took him away. Mr. Thompson tries to make a deal with Galt, to no avail. Dr. Stadler meets with John Galt.
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Atlas Shrugged was written by Ayn Rand in 1957.
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Start by reading the first-tier comments, which are all quotes of Ayn Rand (some of my favorites, some just important for other reasons). Comment on your favorite ones, or others' comments. Don't see your favorite quote? Post it in a new comment. Please reserve new comments for Ayn Rand, and your non-Rand quotes for "replies" to the quotes or discussion. (Otherwise Rand's quotes will get crowded out and pushed down into oblivion. You can help avoid this by "voting up" the Rand quotes, or at least the ones you especially like, and voting down first-tier comments that are not quotes of the featured book.)
Atlas Shrugged was written by Ayn Rand in 1957.
My idea for this post is discussed here:
http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts...
“Yes!”
“And you’ll obey any order I give?”
“Implicitly!”
“Then start by abolishing all income taxes.”
“Oh, no!” screamed Mr. Thompson, leaping to his feet. “We couldn’t do that! That’s … that’s not the field of production. That’s the field of distribution. How would we pay government employees?”
“Fire your government employees.”
“I am.”
“But why?”
“It took me three hours on the radio to tell you why.”
“Start decontrolling.”
“Huh?”
“Start lifting taxes and removing controls.”
“I can!”
It was a woman’s voice, but it had the quality of the voice they had heard on the radio. They whirled to Dagny before she had time to step forward from the darkness beyond the group. As she stepped forward, her face frightened them – because it was devoid of fear.
“I can,” she said, addressing Mr. Thompson. “You’re to give up.”
“Give up?” he repeated blankly.
“You’re through. Don’t you see that you’re through? What else do you need, after what you’ve heard? Give up and get out of the way. Leave men free to exist.”