The real economic cleavage is not... between employers and employed, but between all who do constructive work, from scientist to laborer, on the one hand, and all whose main interest is the preservation of existing proprietary rights upon the other,… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance,… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them. — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
Too often, contemning the external order as unspiritual, [the Puritan] has made it, and ultimately himself, less spiritual by reason of his contempt. — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more efficient, or… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement. — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
By a kind of happy pre-established harmony, such as a later age discovered between the needs of society and the self-interest of the individual,… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
“Granted, I should love my neighbor as myself, the questions which, under modern conditions of large-scale organization, remain for solution are, ''Who precisely is… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
...and was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after more than… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them. — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong. — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
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