Author: Polly Toynbee

Quotes

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.

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

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

- Polly Toynbee

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

- Polly Toynbee

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

- Polly Toynbee

So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime.

So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime.

- Polly Toynbee

Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.

Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.

- Polly Toynbee

How 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?

How 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?

- Polly Toynbee

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