"Men are at every stage of evolution, from……" — Annie Besant
"Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity."
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Annie Besant
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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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More Barbarous Quotes
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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime…
— Albert Camus
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The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as…
— Amerigo Vespucci
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It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity…
— Winston Churchill
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The America of Moctezuma and Atahualpa,the aromatic America of Columbus,Catholic America, Spanish America,the America where noble Cuauhtémoc said: "I am…
— Ruben Dario
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Wars of aggression are the most barbarous of all human endeavors and are, more often than not, the instruments of…
— Rodrigue Tremblay
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Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.
— William Shakespeare
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It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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As long as the arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people,…
— T.E. Lawrence
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In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long…
— Henry George
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During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary
— Carl Jung
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If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This…
— Nikola Tesla
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