But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith. Polly Toynbee Read Quote
This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition. Polly Toynbee Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying. Polly Toynbee Read Quote
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 Read Quote
