The athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.
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.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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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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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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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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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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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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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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There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
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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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The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.
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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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Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States.
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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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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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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start 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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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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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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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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