Quotes by Polly Toynbee - Page 1

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.
Polly Toynbee / Journalist
Care
Dying
Earth
In The End
Prevent
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Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.
Polly Toynbee / Journalist
Incapacity
Indignity
Pain
Transformation
Entirely
Personal
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Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.
Polly Toynbee / Journalist
Aspect
Care
Dying
Openness
Aspects
Led
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Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.
Polly Toynbee / Journalist
Dying
People
Terrible
Way
Death Fear People
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Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust of women's bodies.
Polly Toynbee / Journalist
Body
Christianity
Islam
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But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.
Polly Toynbee / Journalist
Bursting
Crime
Jail
Overwhelming
Reason Why
Sentences
Crimes
Jails
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Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.
Polly Toynbee / Journalist
Doe
Influence
Instability
People
Unemployment
Unhappy
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But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.
Polly Toynbee / Journalist
Education
Government
Standing
World
Handing
Standing Up
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This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.
Polly Toynbee / Journalist
Christendom
Clash
Islam
Reason
Superstitions
Indeed
Superstition
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There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.
Polly Toynbee / Journalist
Children
Religious
Teaching
All The Difference
Handing
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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.
Polly Toynbee / Journalist
Longing
People
Relative
Want
Die
Watched
Choosing
Death Time People
Slowly
Death Time Die
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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?
Polly Toynbee / Journalist
Art
Iconography
Knowing
Religions
History Art Culture
Main
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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.
Polly Toynbee / Journalist
Common Sense
Compassion
Enlightenment
Spiritual
Rise
Lords
Proclaim
Regiment
Temporal
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Nothing keeps people together like the exalted conviction that they alone are to be spared that eternal anguish of hell fire to which everyone else will be condemned.
Polly Toynbee / Journalist
Fire
People
Together
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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.
Polly Toynbee / Journalist
Crime
Example
Fall
Labour
Paradigm
Policy
Voters
Disasters
Falling
Senseless
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So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime.
Polly Toynbee / Journalist
Jobs
Crime
Giving Up
Jail
Too Late
Finding
Mostly
Prisoners
Treatments
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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.
Polly Toynbee / Journalist
Catholic
Plus
Polls
Support
Years
Catholics
Practising
Readers
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The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.
Polly Toynbee / Journalist
Illness
Lasts
Mental Illness
Poverty
Stronger
Unhappiness
Years
Highly
Mental
Predictor
Ranks
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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.
Polly Toynbee / Journalist
Depression
Anxiety Disorder
Conditions
Disorder
Pain
People
Severe
Worried
Chronic
Crippling
Mental
Prevent
Suffer
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It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.
Polly Toynbee / Journalist
Happiness
Activity
Degrees
Electrical
Levels
Measuring
Observation
Pain
People
Sublime
Terrible
Accurately
Quantify
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The pens sharpen – Islamophobia! No such thing. Primitive Middle Eastern religions, and most others, are much the same – Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust for women's bodies.
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Body
Christianity
Islam
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Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.
Polly Toynbee / Journalist
Happiness
Government
Accepted
Dare
Gdp
Audit
Monitor
Scientific
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Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.
Polly Toynbee / Journalist
Happiness
Cameron
Challenges
Labour
Water
David
Denying
Implies
Lightly
Policies
Toe
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Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche, more profound than anything Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking.
Polly Toynbee / Journalist
Women
Ideas
Mean
Profound
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Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.
Polly Toynbee / Journalist
Happiness
Earning
Giving
Inequality
Spending
Unhappy
Years
Extra
Richer
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Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.
Polly Toynbee / Journalist
Happiness
Causes
Cures
Mean
Phenomenon
Real
Unhappiness
Accurately
Compared
Measured
Societies
Objective
Scientifically
Verifiable
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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.
Polly Toynbee / Journalist
Faith
Government
Creating
Empty
Expansion
Heathen
Huge
Labour
Luxury
Odd
Ruined
School
Living
Bare
Choirs
Churches
Nation
Converted
Deliberately
Labour Government
Loft
Schools
Yes
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My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.
Polly Toynbee / Journalist
Doctors
Dying
Impossible
Morphine
Mother
Physical Ability
Pills
Weak
Choosing
Promised
Swallow
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