A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.
IDA TARBELLNow, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power this story never would have been written.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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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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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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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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Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil … From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. …
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Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and land, defended ideas, imposed religions.
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Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap.
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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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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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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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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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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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