A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
IDA TARBELLCheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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[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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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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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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Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative.
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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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A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.
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The surprise of the fight on the long day, of the experiments with the shorter one, has been not only that the business could stand it, but that the business thrived under it as surely as the man did.
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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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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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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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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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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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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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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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