You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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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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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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They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization.
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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 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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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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The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.
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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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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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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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I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in this mortal life without overspeculation on the immortal, that it is not necessary to my peace of mind or to my effort to be a decent and useful person, to have a definite assurance about the affairs of the next world.
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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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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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