He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man.
IDA TARBELLHe can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man.
IDA TARBELLA more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
IDA TARBELLTo denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
IDA TARBELLNow, 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.
IDA TARBELLImagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
IDA TARBELLA mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.
IDA TARBELLSpeculation in oil stock companies was another great evil … From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. …
IDA TARBELLOne of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
IDA TARBELLOne of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
IDA TARBELLThere is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
IDA TARBELLMy 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.
IDA TARBELLA mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
IDA TARBELLThe quest of the truth had been born in me – the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man’s quests.
IDA TARBELLRockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
IDA TARBELLThe only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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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