All R. H. Tawney Quotes
- It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still… Advantage
- 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,… All
- One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong. All
- Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow. Death
- Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans. Ability
- A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part of… Allow
- Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them. Clever
- It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement. Any
- The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. Age
- When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them. Broke
- The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by… Activity
- If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much… Adam
- A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only… Attainment