16 Quotes by R. H. Tawney

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.

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 outraged human nature, it must satisfy criteria which are not purely economic.

One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.

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

What thoughtful rich people call the problem of poverty, thoughtful poor people with equal justice call the problem of riches.

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

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.

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

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.