I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
IDA TARBELLRipe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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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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The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.
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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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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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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.
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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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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 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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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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