The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
IDA TARBELLWe 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.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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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 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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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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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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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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If enough oil was held, or if the production fell off, up went the price, only to be knocked down by the throwing of great quantities of stocks on the market.
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[John D. Rockefeller] didn’t care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.
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Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap.
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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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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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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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