A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
IDA TARBELLAn 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.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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If enough oil was held, or if the production fell off, up went the price, only to be knocked down by the throwing of great quantities of stocks on the market.
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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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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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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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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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[On dishonest business methods:] … frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other’s weaknesses!.
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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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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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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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