Annie Besant
Annie Besant
Annie Besantwas a prominent British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator and supporter of Irish and Indian self-rule...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth1 October 1847
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Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.
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A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.
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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.
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It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.
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Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures.
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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.
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The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the illumination of true knowledge, has resulted in a zeal without discretion that has vulgarised Christianity, and has presented its teachings in a form that often repels the heart and alienates the intellect.
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Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.
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Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.
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Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.
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Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to the slaughter; how Isaac meekly submitted; how the farce went on till the lad was bound and laid on the altar, and how God then stopped the murder, and blessed the intending murderer for his willingness to commit the crime.
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Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness.
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The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable as any mathematical proposition, while the other asserts that his existence is not demonstrable to the intellect.
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Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.