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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!

Ida Tarbell

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.
IDA TARBELL

Accept Dangerous Fix Make Man Model More Position Power Rate Refuse Right Tariff Truth Video Work
The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
IDA TARBELL

Assumption Everything First Gun Imperative Mean Men Money Most Necessity War
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.
IDA TARBELL

Always Been Handle Idea Injustice Many Misery Must Oldest Reason Scientifically Tell Tolerating Unemployed Way
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.
IDA TARBELL

Been Believe Defend Gold Human Idea Impose Land Life Live Quarrel Religion Sacredness Settle Won World
If enough oil was held, or if the production fell off, up went the price, only to be knocked down by the throwing of great quantities of stocks on the market.
IDA TARBELL

Down Enough Great Knock Market Price Production Fell Quantity Stock Throw
I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in this mortal life without overspeculation on the immortal, that it is not necessary to my peace of mind or to my effort to be a decent and useful person, to have a definite assurance about the affairs of the next world.
IDA TARBELL

Affairs Assurance Attend Conviction Decent Effort Immortal Left Life Mind Mortal Much Necessary never Next Overspeclation Peace Person Too Useful World
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.
IDA TARBELL

Activity Child Comfort Defeat Direct Do Meaning Purpose Restless See Self Sleep Something Work Year
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.
IDA TARBELL

Been Business Do Experiment Long Shorter Stand Surprise Fight
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

Alone Company Conspicuous Done Give Method Practice Public Scorn Standard
It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
IDA TARBELL

Alone Civilized Deny Justice Make Part Women World Wound
we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
IDA TARBELL

Character Expense Living Our Raise Standard
A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
IDA TARBELL

Control Disturbance Full Long never Popular Remain Start
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.
IDA TARBELL

Built Clear Contribution Depend Had Ilusion Individual Litle Man Matter never Realize Value Woman
In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
IDA TARBELL

Choice Make Man Through Walk World
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.
IDA TARBELL

Absurd Bread Important Make Man More Raise Theory Woman Work
The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
IDA TARBELL

Glad Have Marry One Only Reason Will Woman

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