"In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy……" — Annie Besant
"In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton grasping a scythe, a grinning skull, a threatening figure with terrible face and uplifted dart, a bony scarecrow shaking an hourglass - all that could alarm and repel has been gathered round this rightly-named King of Terrors."
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122 Quotes by Annie Besant
Annie Besant has 122 quotes on this site.
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Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
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Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience…
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Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the…
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Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract…
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No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
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I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.
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Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life…
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The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from…
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What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That…
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An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who…
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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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It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.
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We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
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I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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