A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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As 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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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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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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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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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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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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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 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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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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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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