There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
IDA TARBELLa little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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 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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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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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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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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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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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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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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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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[On dishonest business methods:] … frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other’s weaknesses!.
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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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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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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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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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