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.
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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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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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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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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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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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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a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain.
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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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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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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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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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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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The athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.
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My whole theory for the improvement of society is based on a belief in the discipline and the education of the individual to self-control and right doing, for the sake of right doing.
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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