Annie Besant

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

— Annie Besant

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

— Annie Besant

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand.

— Annie Besant

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

— Annie Besant

Where love rules, laws are not needed.

— Annie Besant

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

— Annie Besant

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

— Annie Besant

Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.

— Annie Besant

When a man, a woman, see their little daily tasks as integral portions of the one great work, they are no longer…

— Annie Besant

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

— Annie Besant

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

— Annie Besant

The wanting of advice is the sign that the Spirit in you has not yet spoken with the compelling voice that you…

— Annie Besant

In a 50 mile radius around Chicago one can see the red aura of pain, agony, terror, anger from all the animals…

— Annie Besant

Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences…

— Annie Besant

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

— Annie Besant

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

— Annie Besant

I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the…

— Annie Besant

The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see…

— Annie Besant

The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable…

— Annie Besant

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

— Annie Besant

The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties.…

— Annie Besant

Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as…

— Annie Besant

Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and…

— Annie Besant

Theosophy tries to bridge the gulf between Buddhism and Christianity by pointing to the fundamental spiritual truths on which both religions are…

— Annie Besant

In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as…

— Annie Besant

Once a person has taken their life, in the inner realms, the suicide will repeat automatically the feelings of despair and fear…

— Annie Besant

'Nature is conquered by obedience' - and her resistless energies are at our bidding, as soon as we, by knowledge, work with…

— Annie Besant

Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after…

— Annie Besant

'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year…

— Annie Besant

Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to the slaughter;…

— Annie Besant

“The prophet—coming forth from time to time with the divine word hot as fire on his lips—speaks out the ancient truth and…

— Annie Besant

Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as…

— Annie Besant

“This is the India of which I speak - the India which, as I said, is to me the Holy Land. For…

— Annie Besant

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

— 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

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

— Annie Besant

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

— Annie Besant

The body is never more alive than when it is dead; but it is alive in its units, and dead in its…

— Annie Besant

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

— Annie Besant