The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
IDA TARBELLPerhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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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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He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man.
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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in this mortal life without overspeculation on the immortal, that it is not necessary to my peace of mind or to my effort to be a decent and useful person, to have a definite assurance about the affairs of the next world.
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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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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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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive methods, receives the same summary disdainful ostracism by his fellows that the doctor or lawyer who is ‘unprofessional,.
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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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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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It is but another of the proofs which are heaping up in American industry to-day that whatever is good for men and women – contributes to their health, happiness, development – is good for business.
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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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They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization.
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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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The athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.
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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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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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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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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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