Quote by Polly Toynbee
How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without kn

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

Other quotes by Polly Toynbee

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

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Education
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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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Religion
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It is now possible to quantify peoples 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. – Polly Toynbee

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Happiness
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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history. – Jacques Yves Cousteau

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History

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. – Thomas Huxley

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History

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class. – Tim Robbins

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History

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. – Pearl Buck

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History

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Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Death

In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it. – Cal Thomas

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Change

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. – Alan Watts

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Change

Three groups spend other peoples money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. – Dick Armey

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Money