"But the single overwhelming reason why jails are……" — Polly Toynbee
"But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes."
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27 Quotes by Polly Toynbee
Polly Toynbee has 27 quotes on this site.
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Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.
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Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.
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There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught…
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The pens sharpen – Islamophobia! No such thing. Primitive Middle Eastern religions (and most others) are much the same –…
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Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust of women's bodies.
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Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.
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But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury…
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The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is…
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Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the…
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But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.
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Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly,…
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Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More…
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Look at the earth crowded with growth, new and old bursting from their strong roots hidden in the silent, live…
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been…
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How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty. If…
— Bonnie Raitt
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The spring of the New Age is here, bursting forth in perfect harmony, beauty and abundance; and nothing can stop…
— Eileen Caddy
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Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let…
— Georges Bernanos
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Our challenge, our generation's unique challenge, is learning to live peacefully and sustainably in an extraordinarily crowded world. Our planet…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full…
— William Godwin
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A 'death mirror' held up to American culture - Brando, bikes and black leather; Christ, chains and cocaine. A 'high'…
— Kenneth Anger
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He (God) may sometimes chasten us, it is true, but even this He does with a smile, the proud, tender…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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With depression, you can go in and out of it and not really know whether it's still there or not.…
— Keisha Buchanan
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Gratitude makes us feel bursting with delight, just to remember the gifts we have received. Thus we are doubly blessed…
— M. J. Ryan
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