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Ida Tarbell Quotes

You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger. Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States Picture Quote #1

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. Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes! Picture Quote #1

We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce. As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class Picture Quote #1

Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals Picture Quote #1

Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks. They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization Picture Quote #1

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible Picture Quote #1

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... the economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful Picture Quote #1

A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it Picture Quote #1

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it Picture Quote #1

There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures Picture Quote #1

We were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character Picture Quote #1

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms Picture Quote #1

The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one Picture Quote #1

It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear! Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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. 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 Picture Quote #1

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There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger. Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States (Ida Tarbell Quotes) 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. Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes! (Ida Tarbell Quotes) We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce. As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class (Ida Tarbell Quotes) Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals (Ida Tarbell Quotes) Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks. They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization (Ida Tarbell Quotes) Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible (Ida Tarbell Quotes) ... the economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful (Ida Tarbell Quotes) A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it (Ida Tarbell Quotes) A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it (Ida Tarbell Quotes) There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures (Ida Tarbell Quotes) We were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character (Ida Tarbell Quotes) Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world (Ida Tarbell Quotes) 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 Tarbell Quotes) One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms (Ida Tarbell Quotes) The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one (Ida Tarbell Quotes) It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear! (Ida Tarbell Quotes) 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 (Ida Tarbell Quotes) 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. 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 (Ida Tarbell Quotes) There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral (Ida Tarbell Quotes) 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 (Ida Tarbell Quotes)