There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair.
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. …
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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Now, 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.
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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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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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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The quest of the truth had been born in me – the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man’s quests.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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The athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.
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[John D. Rockefeller] didn’t care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.
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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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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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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.
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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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We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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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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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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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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Yet 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.
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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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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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