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.
IDA TARBELL
No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer.
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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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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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The surprise of the fight on the long day, of the experiments with the shorter one, has been not only that the business could stand it, but that the business thrived under it as surely as the man did.
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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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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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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Many men ridicule the idea that it can be scientifically handled. They tell us the unemployed have always been with us, and always must be. It is the oldest reason in the world for tolerating injustice and misery.
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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 more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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