In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
IDA TARBELLThere is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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Many men ridicule the idea that it can be scientifically handled. They tell us the unemployed have always been with us, and always must be. It is the oldest reason in the world for tolerating injustice and misery.
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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 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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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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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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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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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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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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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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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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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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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States.
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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