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.
IDA TARBELLCanonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices.
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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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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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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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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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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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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 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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Life is but a collection of habits.
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