[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!.
IDA TARBELLThe 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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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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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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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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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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I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in this mortal life without overspeculation on the immortal, that it is not necessary to my peace of mind or to my effort to be a decent and useful person, to have a definite assurance about the affairs of the next world.
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Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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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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I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer.
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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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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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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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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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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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