The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
IDA TARBELLAs 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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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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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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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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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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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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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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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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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.
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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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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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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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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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