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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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  Government, Investing, Done

  R. H. Tawney (2016). “Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism”, p.75, Verso Books

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• 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 justify itself for making their life a hell.

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  Riches, Wealth, Hell

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• Los hombres inteligentes están impresionados por sus diferencias con sus semejantes. Los hombres sabios son conscientes de su semejanza con ellos.

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  Wise, Clever, Men

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• Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.

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  Minnows

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• 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.

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  Men, Order, Long

  1926 The Acquisitive Society.

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• 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 common.

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  Men, Fallen World, Common

  R. H. Tawney (2016). “Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism”, p.39, Verso Books

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

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  Democracy, Movement, Nonconformity

  R. H. Tawney (2016). “Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism”, p.232, Verso Books

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

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  Facts, Human Nature, Economic

  'Religion and the Rise of Capitalism' (1926)

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• Las certezas de una época son los problemas de la siguiente.

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  Arte, Filosofía, Ciencia

  R. H. Tawney (2016). “Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism”, p.238, Verso Books

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• Convencido de que el carácter lo es todo y las circunstancias nada, [el puritano] ve en la pobreza de los que caen en el camino, no una desgracia de la que compadecerse y aliviarse, sino un defecto moral que condenar, y en las riquezas, no un objeto de sospecha... sino la bendición que recompensa el triunfo de la energía y la voluntad.

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  Fall, Character, Blessing

  R. H. Tawney (2016). “Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism”, p.198, Verso Books

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• No es hasta que se descubre que los altos ingresos individuales no comprarán a la masa de la humanidad la inmunidad contra el cólera, el tifus y la ignorancia, y mucho menos les asegurarán las ventajas positivas de la oportunidad educativa y la seguridad económica, que lentamente y a regañadientes, en medio de profecías de degeneración moral y desastre económico, la sociedad comienza a hacer provisión colectiva para las necesidades que ningún individuo ordinario, incluso si trabaja horas extras toda su vida, puede proveerse a sí mismo.

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  Educational, Ignorance, Opportunity

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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 broke them.

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  God, Men, Idols

  R. H. TAWNEY (1920). “THE ACQUISITIVE SOCIETY”

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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 the one hand, and all whose main interest is the preservation of existing proprietary rights upon the other, irrespective of whether they contribute to constructive work or not.

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  Philosophy, Real, Hands

  R. H. TAWNEY (1920). “THE ACQUISITIVE SOCIETY”

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• La virtud característica de los ingleses es el poder de la actividad práctica sostenida y su vicio característico la reticencia a probar la calidad de esa actividad por referencia a los principios.

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  Quality, Vices, Principles

  'The Acquisitive Society' (1921)

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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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  Profesor, Jubilación, Enseñanza

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• Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more efficient, or more congenial.

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  Vices, Virtue, Efficient

  R. H.Tawney (1998). “Religion and the Rise of Capitalism”, p.226, Transaction Publishers

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• Por una especie de feliz armonía preestablecida, como la que una época posterior descubrió entre las necesidades de la sociedad y el interés propio del individuo, el éxito en los negocios es en sí mismo casi un signo de gracia espiritual, pues es una prueba de que un hombre ha trabajado fielmente en su vocación.

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  Espiritual, Hombres, Yo

  R. H. Tawney (2016). “Religion and the Rise of Capitalism”, p.210, Verso Books

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• ...and was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after more than half a century of political democracy, is still the characteristic and odious vice of the Englishman.

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  Media, Política, Democracia

  R. H. Tawney (2016). “Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism”, p.166, Verso Books

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

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  Erring, Hips, Smitten

  "The Rise of the Gentry: A Postscript". The Economic History Review, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1954.

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• Too often, contemning the external order as unspiritual, [the Puritan] has made it, and ultimately himself, less spiritual by reason of his contempt.

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  Spiritual, Order, Reason

  R. H. Tawney (2016). “Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism”, p.197, Verso Books

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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 of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.

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  Inspirational, Children, Work

  R. H. TAWNEY (1920). “THE ACQUISITIVE SOCIETY”

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