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.
IDA TARBELLA popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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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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 economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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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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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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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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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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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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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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