16 Quotes by Polly Toynbee
- Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.
- One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.
- Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.
- People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.
- The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.
- There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.
- Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.
- This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.
- Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.
- But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.
- My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.
- Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless.
- How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?
- In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers.
- But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.
- But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.
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