Quotes from Ida Tarbell

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.

Life is but a collection of habits.

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.

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.

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.

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else -- men, guns, ammunition.

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

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

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.

If it has taught us anything, it is that our present law-makers, as a body, are ignorant, corrupt and unprincipled; that the majority of them are, directly or indirectly, under the control of the very monopolies against whose acts we have been seeking relief. .

I have often found it difficult to explain myself to myself, and I do not often try.

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

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