We have held that a death toll was a necessary part of every human achievement, whether sport, war or industry. A moment’s rage over the horror of it, and we have sunk into indifference.
IDA TARBELL[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!.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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He 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.
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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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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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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 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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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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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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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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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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