a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain.
IDA TARBELLYet 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.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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The surprise of the fight on the long day, of the experiments with the shorter one, has been not only that the business could stand it, but that the business thrived under it as surely as the man did.
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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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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One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical.
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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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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.
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Many 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.
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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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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices.
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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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