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I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.
— Annie Besant
Where love rules, laws are not needed.
— Annie Besant
There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.
— Annie Besant
Celibacy is not natural to men or to women; all bodily needs require their legitimate satisfaction, and celibacy is a disregard of natural law.
— Annie Besant
Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and passions.
— Annie Besant
A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.
— Annie Besant
The idea that Buddhism denies what is called in the West 'individual immortality' is a mistake, so far as the Buddhist scriptures are concerned.
— Annie Besant
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
— Annie Besant
Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures.
— Annie Besant
Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an outer form in the world of men.
— Annie Besant
There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand.
— Annie Besant
The body is never more alive than when it is dead; but it is alive in its units, and dead in its totality; alive as a congeries, dead as an organism.
— Annie Besant
When a man, a woman, see their little daily tasks as integral portions of the one great work, they are no longer drudges but co-workers with God.
— Annie Besant
In a 50 mile radius around Chicago one can see the red aura of pain, agony, terror, anger from all the animals being butchered there.
— Annie Besant
To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.
— Annie Besant
The Buddha over and over again spoke clearly and definitely on post-mortem states - as in his conversation with Vasetta.
— Annie Besant
Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.
— Annie Besant
The wanting of advice is the sign that the Spirit in you has not yet spoken with the compelling voice that you ought to obey.
— Annie Besant
When we realise our oneness with our RULER, then the matter shall have no longer power over us, and we shall see it as the unreality it is.
— Annie Besant
The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.
— Annie Besant
My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one purpose, to give back to India her ancient freedom.
— Annie Besant
Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.
— Annie Besant
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.
— Annie Besant
God' is always the equivalent of 'I do not know.
— Annie Besant
Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.
— Annie Besant
Thought creates character.
— Annie Besant
The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.
— Annie Besant
That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.
— Annie Besant
Nature is always lavish of her gifts even to the most insignificant forms. The butterflies and moths are richly dowered in this respect.
— Annie Besant
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
— Annie Besant
An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.
— Annie Besant
It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message.
— Annie Besant