[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.
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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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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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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The surprise of the fight on the long day, of the experiments with the shorter one, has been not only that the business could stand it, but that the business thrived under it as surely as the man did.
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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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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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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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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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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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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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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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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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The inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it.
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