It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
IDA TARBELLOne of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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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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We 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.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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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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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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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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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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Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil … From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. …
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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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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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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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