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Tell us: Who is John Galt?

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When asked "Who is John Galt?", how do you typically respond? The inventor of the motor? The man who stopped the motor of the world? The best within each of us?

We're looking for the clearest, most concise, answers to help promote the message of Atlas and the film. So Gulch... who exactly is John Galt? Submit a comment on this post with your answer or vote on the answer you think is best. The best answers just might be used on upcoming ASP3 promotional materials and, if your answer is used, you’ll get a special thanks in the credits of the film “Atlas Shrugged: Who is John Galt?”

This is your chance to not only help spread the word about Ayn Rand and what John Galt symbolizes but also... to forever be a part of Atlas Shrugged history.

How long should your answer be? No longer than 15 seconds to say/read. Submit as many answers as you like but please submit them as individual comments.

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  • Posted by overmanwarrior 10 years, 8 months ago
    John Galt is a man who could have only been born in America. He is the byproduct of freedom and the answer to thousands of years of failed philosophy. John Galt is the beginning of forever, and the end of the non thinking man.
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  • Posted by equality72521 10 years, 8 months ago

    If you know what it means to say, "I AM", then you know the answer to the question,
    "Who is John Galt".

    The answer to your question, "Who is John Galt?", was written many decades ago.

    Anthem by Ayn Rand
    (open quote)
    Chapter Eleven

    I am. I think. I will.
    My hands . . . My spirit . . . My sky . . . My forest . . . This earth of mine . . . .
    What must I say besides? These are the words. This is the answer.
    (close quote)

    The essential truth that humans are individuals. That they have value. That the definition of good is self-ownership

    and by extension self determination.

    We hold these truths to be self-evident. ... but,

    In another fictional universe many ask "Who is THE DOCTOR?",
    while the more important question may be, "Who aspires to be THE MASTER?".

    The "what", the "how", the "why" are also critical questions.

    "Every slave knows that a free man owns himself."
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  • Posted by MattFranke 10 years, 8 months ago
    Who is John Galt? An ideal? A man? *He* is the ideal man, who does not accept the unearned, nor does he give it. *He* knows not of irrational fear, nor undeserved guilt, nor senseless pain. *He* obeys only the laws of nature, in order to command it; he questions the laws of man, in order to command himself. *He* is the man of the mind, of reason, of virtue. *He* is all that is good and heroic in man, the product of a free mind that is free to act. Would you like to meet him... in yourself???
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  • Posted by swilson1965 10 years, 8 months ago
    John Galt is the man who stops the motor of the world. He can do this with ease, because he and men and women like him are the motor of the world: They are the people of the mind.
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  • Posted by nasby 10 years, 8 months ago
    John Galt is the middle finger of every sovereign individual, standing upright in response to tyranny and statist insanity.
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  • Posted by $ number6 10 years, 8 months ago
    Number6 is John Galt : " I've resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own!"
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  • Posted by monalisaturberville1957 10 years, 8 months ago
    A state of mind, a way of life, the freedom to choose, create and build. A way of life that says, I am not under control by government. My progress is based upon my efforts alone. The freedom to grow is mine to have. No government has the right to tell me I cannot own as much as I am willing to work for and gain.
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  • Posted by Bobhummel 10 years, 8 months ago
    Who Is John Galt?
    Is he a man ... or an idea
    and a choice:
    A Choice between a rational body and spirit or the mystic fog of intuition and impulse. Between a pure full guiltless joy of unbridled freedom or the immolation of the productive by the looters in the name of the public good.
    Between freedom or slavery.
    Life or Death!
    One must choose!
    John Galt is the Identity of that choice
    I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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  • Posted by Bobhummel 10 years, 8 months ago
    Who Is John Galt?
    Is he a man ... or an idea
    and a choice:
    A Choice between a rational body and spirit or the mystic fog of intuition and impulse. Between a pure full guiltless joy of unbridled freedom or the immolation of the productive by the looters in the name of the public good. Between freedom or slavery. Life or Death!
    One must choose!
    I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine
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  • Posted by Bobhummel 10 years, 8 months ago
    Who Is John Galt?
    Is he a man ... or an idea
    and a choice:
    A Choice between a rational body and spirit or the mystic fog of intuition and impulse. Between a pure full guiltless joy of unbridled freedom or the immolation of the productive by the looters in the name of the public good. Between freedom or slavery. Life or Death!
    One must choose!
    I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine
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  • Posted by liberty2014 10 years, 8 months ago
    John Galt is the man who stood up to tyranny by refusing to be a slave to a corrupt government by not giving it the power of his mind, body and soul to live a simple, honest life until the fall of that governmental system. I am John Galt!

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  • Posted by jpalm 10 years, 8 months ago
    Who is John Galt? Standard answer..."good question...Who is John Galt? Could it be you or are we not all John Galt? I believe we all are.

    I see John Galt as a kind of metaphor for man's search for true freedom. Freedom of thought, knowledge, actions and the natural pursuit of mankind to solve the problems that he and his fellow man deal with.

    John Galt means FREEDOM to take your talents and use them to help your fellow man unincumbered.

    Giving them the maximum capability of living life on their own terms while elevating the purpose of their fellow mans ideals to an better level.
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  • Posted by proth52014 10 years, 8 months ago
    Who is John Galt? He is an industrialist – philosopher – orator - organizer. He is a man who lives his own life with passion and integrity.
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