To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair.
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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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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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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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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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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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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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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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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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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I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer.
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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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