Polly Toynbee Quotes

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

I went to religious schools. I wasn't that enthusiastic, by and large, but it sunk in.

I'd had a strict religious education.

I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme.

The very first schoolbook that was written had God all over it.

My family is Catholic. I went to a Catholic school, that kind of thing, so that was my childhood for sure.

I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.

This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into (schools).

There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them.

If our faith is the most important part of our lives, then our religious views influence every other part of our lives, including our political views.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

I'm not really into religion.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.

You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.

I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.

I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.

As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.

I'm not really a fan of organized religion.