| | "She knew too clearly how she had reached her ideas, why they were true, and what their opposites were doing to mankind. Nor, like Howard Roark, could she ever be tempted to betray her convictions. Since she had integrated her principles into a consistent system, she knew that to violate a single one would be to discard the totality. A Texas oil man once offered her up to a million dollars to use in spreading her philosophy, if she would only add a religious element to it to make it more popular. She threw his proposal into the wastebasket. 'What would I do with his money,' she asked me indignantly, 'if I have to give up my mind in order to get it?'"
Leonard Peikoff, "My Thirty Years With Ayn Rand: An Intellectual Memoir", The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought (Kindle Locations 6290-6294). Meridian.
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What would I do with his money if I have to give up my mind in order to get it?
