"This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not……" — Polly Toynbee
"This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition."
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Polly Toynbee
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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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To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to christendom at this time was not…
— Bertrand Russell
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It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the…
— Joseph Story
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An angel is a spiritual being, created by god without a body, for the service of Christendom.
— Martin Luther
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The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is…
— Rick Santorum
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The present custom of orthodox Christendom, in packing their sins upon the back of a God, is just the same…
— Unknown Author
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Catholics and Protestants are fighting with one another... while the enemy of Aryan humanity and all Christendom is laughing up…
— Adolf Hitler
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This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the…
— Orson Pratt
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PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. . . . not be confused with that of…
— Ambrose Bierce
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And that is what the perception is by the American left, who hates Christendom.
— Rick Santorum
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The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is…
— Rick Santorum
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