Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying. — Polly Toynbee Death Copy Share Image
Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be… — Polly Toynbee Accepted Copy Share Image
Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying. — Polly Toynbee Aspect Copy Share Image
Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability. — Polly Toynbee Doe Copy Share Image
Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust of women's bodies. — Polly Toynbee Body Copy Share Image
Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives… — Polly Toynbee Earning Copy Share Image
“The strain of engaging emotionally with all that misery was exhausting. The kindness and hard work of the care assistants here was… — Polly Toynbee Equal pay Copy Share Image
Nothing keeps people together like the exalted conviction that they alone are to be spared that eternal anguish of hell fire to… — Polly Toynbee Anguish Copy Share Image
One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental… — Polly Toynbee Anxiety Copy Share Image
But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith. — Polly Toynbee Education Copy Share Image
The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even… — Polly Toynbee Illness Copy Share Image
People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative… — Polly Toynbee Death Copy Share Image
This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition. — Polly Toynbee Christendom Copy Share Image
Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche, more profound… — Polly Toynbee Banking Copy Share Image
So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or… — Polly Toynbee Crime Copy Share Image
It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity… — Polly Toynbee Activity Copy Share Image
There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the… — Polly Toynbee Children Copy Share Image
In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising… — Polly Toynbee Catholic Copy Share Image
How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and… — Polly Toynbee Art Copy Share Image
My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment,… — Polly Toynbee Against Copy Share Image
Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal. — Polly Toynbee Incapacity Copy Share Image
The pens sharpen – Islamophobia! No such thing. Primitive Middle Eastern religions (and most others) are much the same – Islam, Christianity… — Polly Toynbee Body Copy Share Image
Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared… — Polly Toynbee Causes Copy Share Image
Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying… — Polly Toynbee Cameron Copy Share Image
