Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.

- Polly Toynbee

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 …

- Polly Toynbee

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

- Polly Toynbee

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

In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plu…

- Polly Toynbee

This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.

- Polly Toynbee

One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions cri…

- Polly Toynbee

Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust of women's bodies.

- Polly Toynbee

The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness t…

- Polly Toynbee