Tawney Equality

"To prize as an economic advantage the arrangements which produce them is not realism, but romance. It is to wear [a mill-stone as a talisman]."

Societies "convinced that inequality is an evil need not be alarmed because [it] cannot wholly be subdued...Recognizing the poison[, they have] an antidote."

"Violent contrasts of wealth and power [are] a mark...of barbarism, like the gold rings in the noses of savage monarchs, or the...chains on their slaves."

"Power over the public is public power," even when "private persons are permitted to buy and sell, own and bequeath it, as they deem most profitable."