A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
IDA TARBELLIt is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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Yet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair.
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There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair.
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When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive methods, receives the same summary disdainful ostracism by his fellows that the doctor or lawyer who is ‘unprofessional,.
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Were it alone in these methods, public scorn would long ago have made short work of the Standard Oil Company. But it is simply the most conspicuous type of what can be done by these practices.
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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical.
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[John D. Rockefeller] didn’t care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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It is but another of the proofs which are heaping up in American industry to-day that whatever is good for men and women – contributes to their health, happiness, development – is good for business.
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There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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An excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another’s shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another’s pockets.
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