A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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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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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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[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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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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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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Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil … From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. …
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a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain.
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Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap.
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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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A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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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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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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