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

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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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Happiness
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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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Happiness
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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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The Lord is my light, and my salvation; whom shall I fear? – Bible

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Religion

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them? – Charles de Secondat

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Religion

To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over mens souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means. – Emanuel Swedenborg

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Religion

Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion. – Ville Valo

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Religion

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