Quote by Polly Toynbee
Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron d

Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge. – 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. – Polly Toynbee

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How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the worlds main religions? – Polly Toynbee

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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

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To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. – Virginia Woolf

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The secret of happiness is something to do. – John Burroughs

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That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others. – James Thomson

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