Citations:go Galt

English citations of go Galt

to recluse and stop contributing to one's society

• 2009 March 6, David Weigel, “Battling Obama by ‘Going Galt’”, in The Washington Independent‎^[1]:

  Smith, who’s still mulling over ways that she can “go Galt,” sees a possibility for a moral stand. During the Iraq War, she read about a painter who’d painted less, reducing his income, in order to dodge taxes and thereby make sure he didn’t fund the war.

• 2012 November 6, The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert (actor), via Comedy Central:

  We job creators are not going to take it. We are going Galt! Just like in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, we are gonna leave you parasites behind and relocate to an island where only rich people can live — Manhattan!

• 2012 November 29, The Daily Show‎^[2], John Hodgman and Jon Stewart (actors):

  Hodgman: And as our final punishment to you, we are leaving, Jon. We are going Galt! Going Galt, Jon! Like in Atlas Shrugged. Here, here, here. [gives Jon book] Read it. I'll wait.

  Stewart: I'm familiar with Atlas Shrugged. I understand.

  Hodgman: You'll learn a lot.

  Stewart: John Galt and other top industrialists abandon an ungrateful nation, form their own society in a secret valley in Colorado.

  Hodgman: Yes.

  Stewart: So that's what you're doing?

  Hodgman: Oh, we've already done it, Jon.