Phrase by 'Polly Toynbee'

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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.

Author: Polly Toynbee - English Journalist
  Money , Poor , Happiness , Unhappy


Could 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.

Author: Polly Toynbee - English Journalist
  Money , Happiness , Progress , Government


My 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.

Author: Polly Toynbee - English Journalist
  Day , Today , Spiritual , Compassion


In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers.

Author: Polly Toynbee - English Journalist
  Support , Done , Church , Die


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

Author: Polly Toynbee - English Journalist
  People , Fear , Death , Dying


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.

Author: Polly Toynbee - English Journalist
  People , Time , Death , Die


The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

Author: Polly Toynbee - English Journalist
  Care , Best , End , Earth


Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.

Author: Polly Toynbee - English Journalist
  Personal , Pain , Entirely , Indignity


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

Author: Polly Toynbee - English Journalist
  About , Care , Death , Dying


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.

Author: Polly Toynbee - English Journalist
  Life , Time , Mother , Impossible


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