It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
IDA TARBELLImagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative.
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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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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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Life is but a collection of habits.
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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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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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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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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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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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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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I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and the unfair ways he used to be successful.
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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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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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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 athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.
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