Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

- R. H. Tawney

It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.

- R. H. Tawney

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.

- 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…

- 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.

- 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…

- 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 …

- R. H. Tawney

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

- 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…

- R. H. Tawney