"Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability."

--

Source : "It is not fanciful to make the pursuit of happiness a political imperative" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2006.

Polly Toynbee

#People Quotes #Unhappy Quotes #Unemployment Quotes

“Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.”
“With GG, you don't get what you expect. You get what you deserve.”
“Don't nobody like a man they can't figure.”
“One attacks those who possess things that one does not possess. The attack is all the more savage because the one who attacks is destitute and the one who is attacked is well provided. The one who attacks always considers himself to be in the position of legitimate offense.”

Source : Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.371, U of Nebraska Press
“[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.”
“The president of the United States, whoever it is, deserves a certain level of reverence and respect just because of the office he holds.”
“The inspiration and authority of the Bible is the bedrock upon which our faith is built. Without it, we are doomed to uncertainty, doubt, and a hopeless groping in the darkness of human speculation.”
“That day, I really believed that I had grasped something and that henceforth my life would be changed. But insights cannot be held for ever. Like water, the world ripples across you and for a while you take on its colours. Then it recedes, and leaves you face to face with the void you carry inside yourself, confronting that central inadequacy of soul which you must learn to rub shoulders with and to combat, and which, paradoxically, may be our surest impetus.”

You may also like:

Andrew Marr
Journalist
Arnold J. Toynbee
Historian
Jonathan Freedland
Journalist
Laurie Penny
Journalist
Owen Jones
Columnist
Peter Hitchens
Journalist
Philip Toynbee
Writer
Shirley Williams
British Politician
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Journalist