The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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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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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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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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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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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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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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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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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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[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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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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Were it alone in these methods, public scorn would long ago have made short work of the Standard Oil Company. But it is simply the most conspicuous type of what can be done by these practices.
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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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