Quotes by Polly Toynbee

My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to...

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My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords...

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Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

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It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them,...

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Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the...

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Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the...

#Inequality

In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the...

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How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories...

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Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can...

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Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy...

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Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there...

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But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more...

#Polly Toynbee