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.
IDA TARBELLSuch fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive methods, receives the same summary disdainful ostracism by his fellows that the doctor or lawyer who is ‘unprofessional,.
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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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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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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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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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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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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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I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and the unfair ways he used to be successful.
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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.
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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 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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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
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