we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
IDA TARBELLI have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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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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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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Life is but a collection of habits.
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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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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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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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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 surprise of the fight on the long day, of the experiments with the shorter one, has been not only that the business could stand it, but that the business thrived under it as surely as the man did.
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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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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power this story never would have been written.
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