We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
IDA TARBELLOne of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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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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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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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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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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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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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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[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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[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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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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