There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
IDA TARBELLThe first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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[John D. Rockefeller] didn’t care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.
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As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.
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Now, 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.
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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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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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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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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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He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man.
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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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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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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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My whole theory for the improvement of society is based on a belief in the discipline and the education of the individual to self-control and right doing, for the sake of right doing.
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Very often people who admit the facts, who are willing to see that Mr. Rockefeller has employed force and fraud to secure his ends, justify him by declaring, ‘It’s business.’ That is, ‘it’s business’ has come to be a legitimate excuse for hard dealing, sly tricks, special privileges.
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