R. H. Tawney

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.

Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their re ...

If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in ...

Too often, contemning the external order as unspiritual, [the Puritan] has made it, and ultimately h ...

An erring colleague is not an Amalkite to be smitten hip and thigh.

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their character ...

Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to rais ...

...and was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and ...

Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other ...

A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to b ...

A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be dispos ...

As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich ...

By a kind of happy pre-established harmony, such as a later age discovered between the needs of soci ...

Convinced that character is all and circumstances nothing, [the Puritan] sees in the poverty of thos ...