Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
IDA TARBELLMy 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.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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Very often people who admit the facts, who are willing to see that Mr. Rockefeller has employed force and fraud to secure his ends, justify him by declaring, ‘It’s business.’ That is, ‘it’s business’ has come to be a legitimate excuse for hard dealing, sly tricks, special privileges.
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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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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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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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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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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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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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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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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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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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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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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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