Polly Toynbee's Profile
Brief about Polly Toynbee: By info that we know Polly Toynbee was born at 1946-12-27. And also Polly Toynbee is English Journalist.
Some Polly Toynbee's quotes. Goto "Polly Toynbee's quotation" section for more.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.
Tags: Depression, Enough, PainIt 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.
Tags: Brain, Happiness, PainThis is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.
Tags: Between, Islam, ReasonMy 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.
Tags: Compassion, Spiritual, TodayThe 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.
Tags: Anyone, Last, PovertyPeople 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.
Tags: Death, Die, TimeThere is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.
Tags: Between, Children, ReligionCould 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.
Tags: Government, Happiness, MoneyCrime 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.
Tags: Scared, Stay, WorstHow 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?
Tags: Art, History, SenseBut instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.
Tags: Education, Faith, GovernmentBut the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.
Tags: Reason, Single, WhyMost people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.
Tags: Death, Dying, FearThresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.
Tags: Incapacity, Pain, PersonalWorking lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.
Tags: Lives, Makes, WorkingBut 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.
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