Logo
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

Other quotes by 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 worlds main religions? – Polly Toynbee

Category:
History
Author
Polly Toynbee
Read Quote

Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified. – Polly Toynbee

Category:
Happiness
Author
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

Category:
Death
Author
Polly Toynbee
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Happiness
category

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness. – Leon Kass

Category:
Happiness

One joy scatters a hundred griefs. – Chinese Proverb

Category:
Happiness

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. – Matthew Arnold

Category:
Happiness

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain. – Arthur Rimbaud

Category:
Happiness

Random Quotes

What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire. – Proverb

Category:
Eyes

Success isnt everything but it makes a man stand straight. – Lillian Hellman

Category:
Success

Everybody is like a magnet. You attract to yourself reflections of that which you are. If youre friendly then everybody else seems to be friendly too. – David R. Hawkins

Category:
Reflection

On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda – we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics. – Angela Merkel

Category:
Politics