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R. H. Tawney has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus,…
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The real economic cleavage is not... between employers and employed, but between all who do constructive work, from scientist to laborer, on…
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One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.
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Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.
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Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.
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A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on…
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Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.
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It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.
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The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
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When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone…
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The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of…
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If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession…
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Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.
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No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.
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Christmas in Bethlehem. The earliest dream: a cold, clear night made bright by a magnificent star, the smell of anger, marshals and…
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