A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
IDA TARBELLA more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
IDA TARBELLVery often people who admit the facts, who are willing to see that Mr. Rockefeller has employed force and fraud to secure his ends, justify him by declaring, ‘It’s business.’ That is, ‘it’s business’ has come to be a legitimate excuse for hard dealing, sly tricks, special privileges.
IDA TARBELLThe inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it.
IDA TARBELLwe were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
IDA TARBELLThere is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
IDA TARBELLIt is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
IDA TARBELLImagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
IDA TARBELLThe theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd.
IDA TARBELLThe first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
IDA TARBELLMany men ridicule the idea that it can be scientifically handled. They tell us the unemployed have always been with us, and always must be. It is the oldest reason in the world for tolerating injustice and misery.
IDA TARBELLI 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.
IDA TARBELLI have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
IDA TARBELLWere 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.
IDA TARBELLCanonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
IDA TARBELLOne of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
IDA TARBELLIn walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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