Quotes by Polly Toynbee

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the...

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But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined...

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Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.

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Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.

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This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason...

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There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing...

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The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the...

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The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

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So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late:...

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People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many...

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Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.

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One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the...

#Polly Toynbee