"There can be no wise politics without thought…" — Annie Besant
"There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand."
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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 Beforehand Quotes
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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts…
— Saul Bellow
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I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken…
— Winston Churchill
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A warrior should not say something fainthearted, even casually. He should set his mind to this beforehand. Even in trifling…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer…
— Wilkie Collins
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With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots,…
— Sun Tzu
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The military has no constant form, just as water has no constant shape - adapt as you face the enemy,…
— Sun Tzu
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Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
— John Selden
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He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was…
— Saint Augustine
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Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.
— Cindy Sherman
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