Annie Besant Quotes

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• Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

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  Inspiring, Thinking, Silent

  Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”

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• There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness without life.

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  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Annie Besant (1904). “A Study in Consciousness: A Contribution to the Science of Psychology”

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• Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.

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  Lying, Responsibility, Two

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• No soul that aspires can ever fail to rise; no heart that loves can ever be abandoned. Difficulties exist only that in overcoming them we may grow strong, and they who have suffered are able to save.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Strong

  Annie Besant (2014). “The Spiritual Life”, p.30, Quest Books

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• India is the mother of religion. In her are combined science and religion in perfect harmony, and that is the Hindu religion, and it is India that shall be again the spiritual mother of the world.

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  Mother, Spiritual, Perfect

  Besant's lecture at the Grand Theatre, Calcutta, on January 15, 1906. "Hindu superiority". Book by Har Bilas Sarda, 1906.

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• Where love rules, laws are not needed.

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  Law, Needed

  Annie Besant (1912). “Theosophy”, London [etc.] T. C. & E. C. Jack; New York, Dodge publishing Company [1912]

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• Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.

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  Ignorance, Character, Essentials

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

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  Selfish, Men, Socialism

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• Out of right thinking comes right practice. It is not true that it does not matter what a man believes. It is not true to say, as many say, that a man's beliefs do not matter, it is only his conduct which is of importance; no lasting right conduct grows out of wrong belief. If you think falsely, you will act mistakenly; if you think basely, your conduct will suit your thinking.

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  Spiritual, Peace, Thinking

  "The Wisdom of the Upanishats: Four Lectures Delivered at the Thirty-first Anniversary Meeting of the Theosophical Society, at Adyar, December, 1906".

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• When we recognise that unity of all living things, then at once arises the question - how can we support this life of ours with least injury to the lives around us; how can we prevent our own life adding to the suffering of the world in which we live?

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  Support, Unity, Suffering

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• Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree.

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  Wise, Boys, Men

  Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”

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• The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.

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  Compassion, Misery, Evolution

  Annie Besant (1913). “Vegetarianism in the Light of Theosophy”

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• Thought creates character.

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  Character, Power Of Thought

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• When a man, a woman, see their little daily tasks as integral portions of the one great work, they are no longer drudges but co-workers with God.

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  Work, Men, Daily Tasks

  Annie Besant (1912). “Theosophy”, London [etc.] T. C. & E. C. Jack; New York, Dodge publishing Company [1912]

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• No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.

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  Strong, Passion, Silence

  Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”

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

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  Opportunity, Men, Meditation

  Annie Besant (1918). “Thought Power, Its Control and Culture”

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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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  Religious, Atheist, Philosophy

  "Why God". Book by William J. Pardue, May 10, 2012.

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• The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the six Darshanas and the Brahma Sutras, which are still the delight of scholars and the inspiration of occultists and mystics.

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  Yoga, Philosophical, Inspiration

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• I will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.

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  Children, Winning, Hands

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• Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.

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  Race, Humanity, Chords

  Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”

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• You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.

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  Teaching, Practice, Should

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• Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.

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  Country, Courage, Adventure

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• The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.

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  May, Our Actions, Morality

  Annie Wood Besant (2011). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”, p.154, Cambridge University Press

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• Control of the tongue! Vital for the man who would try to tread the Path, for no harsh or unkind word, no hasty impatient phrase, may escape from the tongue which is consecrated to service, and which must not injure even an enemy; for that which wounds has no place in the Kingdom of Love.

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  Men, Enemy, Trying

  Annie Besant (1943). “Daily meditations on the path and its qualifications: from the works of Annie Besant”

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• Celibacy is not natural to men or to women; all bodily needs require their legitimate satisfaction, and celibacy is a disregard of natural law.

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  Men, Law, Needs

  Annie Besant (1878). “The Law of Population: Its Consequences and Its Bearing Upon Human Conduct and Morals”

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