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 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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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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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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Were it alone in these methods, public scorn would long ago have made short work of the Standard Oil Company. But it is simply the most conspicuous type of what can be done by these practices.
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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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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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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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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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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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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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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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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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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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