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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

Lawyers are like that famous vampire-bat, said to exist in Hungary, which seizes on a creature, and never lets go while there is blood left. — Walter 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

It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight. — 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

Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth. — Walter 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

The Buddha over and over again spoke clearly and definitely on post-mortem states - as in his conversation with Vasetta. — Annie Besant

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant

The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders. — Annie Besant

There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness without life. — 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

I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day. — Walter Besant

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. — Annie Besant

A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name. — 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

Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. — 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

Purification is but the cleaning of the lamp-glass which hides the Light — Annie Besant

India is a country in which every great religion finds a home. — Annie Besant

Perhaps, after all, the greatest psychologist is not the metaphysician but the novelist. — Walter Besant

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act. — Annie Besant

The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution. — 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

Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings. — Annie Besant

Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish. — Annie Besant

Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end. — 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

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

Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature. — 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