There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair.
IDA TARBELLYet 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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As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.
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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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The athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.
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We have held that a death toll was a necessary part of every human achievement, whether sport, war or industry. A moment’s rage over the horror of it, and we have sunk into indifference.
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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.
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Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices.
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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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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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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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We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
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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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My whole theory for the improvement of society is based on a belief in the discipline and the education of the individual to self-control and right doing, for the sake of right doing.
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The quest of the truth had been born in me – the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man’s quests.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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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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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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The inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it.
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The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.
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a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain.
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Very often people who admit the facts, who are willing to see that Mr. Rockefeller has employed force and fraud to secure his ends, justify him by declaring, ‘It’s business.’ That is, ‘it’s business’ has come to be a legitimate excuse for hard dealing, sly tricks, special privileges.
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.
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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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