Atlas Shrugged

Atlas Shrugged⚑

Atlas Shrugged is a 1957 novel by Ayn Rand. It contains Rand's most extensive statement of Objectivism. The book depicts a dystopian United States in which private businesses suffer under increasingly burdensome laws and regulations.

The book is more than a thousand pages long. There are audiobooks (~60h long) and a movie divided in three parts.

Quotes⚑

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.

Who is John Galt?

If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?

I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?

To shrug.

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”