Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.
Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow. - R. H. Tawney
Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.
- R. H. Tawney
Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them. - R. H. Tawney
Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.
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 o… - R. H. Tawney
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 o…
As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it. - R. H. Tawney
As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.
It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement. - R. H. Tawney
It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.
A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to ju… - R. H. Tawney
A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to ju…
The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. - R. H. Tawney
The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, stil… - R. H. Tawney
It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, stil…
Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in … - R. H. Tawney
Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in …
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