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  • Member Of The London School Board
  • 1847 - 1933
  • 146 quotes

Annie Besant, Member Of The London School Board (1847 - 1933), is quoted 146 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Men, India, Islam and Law.

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When a man, a woman, see their little daily tasks as integral ... - 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.

Thought creates character.

Where love rules, laws are not needed.

God' is always the equivalent of 'I do not know.

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand.

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

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

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

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

Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.

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

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

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

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

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

The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.

Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures.

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

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

I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.

There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.

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

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

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

Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.

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

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.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.

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.

Nature is always lavish of her gifts even to the most insignificant forms. The butterflies and moths are richly dowered in this respect.

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.

Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and passions.

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.

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.

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.

The idea that Buddhism denies what is called in the West individual immortality is a mistake, so far as the Buddhist scriptures are concerned.

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.

Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.

Celibacy is not natural to men or to women; all bodily needs require their legitimate satisfaction, and celibacy is a disregard of natural law.

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.

I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the faith which preaches monogamy.

The idea that Buddhism denies what is called in the West 'individual immortality' is a mistake, so far as the Buddhist scriptures are concerned.

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.

Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.

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.

You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is one, however multiform in its evolution.

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