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.
IDA TARBELLIt is but another of the proofs which are heaping up in American industry to-day that whatever is good for men and women – contributes to their health, happiness, development – is good for business.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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It is but another of the proofs which are heaping up in American industry to-day that whatever is good for men and women – contributes to their health, happiness, development – is good for business.
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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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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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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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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My whole theory for the improvement of society is based on a belief in the discipline and the education of the individual to self-control and right doing, for the sake of right doing.
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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 first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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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 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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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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