There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair.
IDA TARBELLThe only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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An excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another’s shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another’s pockets.
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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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[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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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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One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical.
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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 have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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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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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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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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Very often people who admit the facts, who are willing to see that Mr. Rockefeller has employed force and fraud to secure his ends, justify him by declaring, ‘It’s business.’ That is, ‘it’s business’ has come to be a legitimate excuse for hard dealing, sly tricks, special privileges.
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The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.
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Yet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair.
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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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