we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
IDA TARBELLThe only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all he cared about was his money and wasn’t considered.
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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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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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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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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.
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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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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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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from 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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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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The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd.
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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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I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and the unfair ways he used to be successful.
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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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