"It is not monogamy when there is one……" — Annie Besant
"It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight."
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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 the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam…
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More Legal Quotes
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one of 1,014 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep…
— Julian Assange
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We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization,…
— Julian Assange
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People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
— Saint Augustine
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Punishment is justice for the unjust.
— Saint Augustine
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It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
— Arthur Baer
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Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
— HonorÈ De Balzac
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
— Joseph Addison
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We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
— Jeremy Bentham
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the…
— Felix Adler
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The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that…
— Conrad Black
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