Who is he?

A sign posted in N.Y.C.'s East Village circa 2005 begs the question:



From Atlas Shrugged:

"John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains--and he withdrew his fire--until the day men withdraw their vultures." -Francisco d'Aconia

"The world will change when you are ready to pronounce this oath:
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 the sake of mine."- John Galt

Atlas Shrugged

I have recently been reading Atlas Shrugged by the great Ayn Rand and came across this wonderful portion of text amongst the 1075 or so pages of the book:

" Don't believe the dreams they pump you full of, and you won't get hurt."

"What dreams?"

"The stories they tell you when you're young- about the human spirit. There isn't any human spirit. Man is just a low-grade animal without intellect, without soul, without virtues or moral values. An animal with only two capacities: to eat and to reproduce."