Quote by Polly Toynbee
There is all the difference in the world between teaching children

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

Other quotes by Polly Toynbee

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

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Death
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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. – Polly Toynbee

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

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Fear
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Other Quotes from
Religion
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost. – Saint Ignatius

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Religion

Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. – Zbigniew Brzezinski

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Religion

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion. – Lytton Strachey

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Religion

The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles? – John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson, 1815 June 20th

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Religion

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funny

We might not make what athletes in other sports make, but we have greater longevity and we do have certain freedoms to do things they cant do. Like stay home one week and play the next week. – David Duval

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Sports

Beware of men who cry. Its true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own. – Nora Ephron

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Men