Annie Besant

That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no…

— Annie Besant

A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the…

— 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

God is immanent in every atom, all-pervading, all-sustaining, all-evolving; He is its source and its end, its cause and its object, its…

— Annie Besant

My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote…

— Annie Besant

No soul that aspires can ever fail to rise; no heart that loves can ever be abandoned. Difficulties exist only that in…

— Annie Besant

It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught…

— Annie Besant

I will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands…

— Annie Besant

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid…

— Annie Besant

Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist, the only…

— Annie Besant

Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.

— Annie Besant

The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of danger and…

— Annie Besant

Those who can serve best, those who help most, those who sacrifice most, those are the people who will be loved in…

— Annie Besant

I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.

— Annie Besant

The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost…

— Annie Besant

Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.

— 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

Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then…

— Annie Besant

Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part of the…

— Annie Besant

The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything…

— Annie Besant

Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it…

— Annie Besant

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

— Annie Besant

No circumstances can ever make or mar the unfolding of the spiritual life. Spirituality does not depend upon the environment; it depends…

— Annie Besant

No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have…

— 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