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.
IDA TARBELLThere is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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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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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 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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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices.
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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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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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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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I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer.
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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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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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How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.
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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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