Author: Annie Besant

Quotes

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.

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.

- Annie Besant

It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message.

It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message.

- Annie Besant

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

- Annie Besant

India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.

India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.

- Annie Besant

A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.

A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.

- Annie Besant

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

- Annie Besant

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

- Annie Besant

Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and let us see whether India need blush at the comparison.

Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and let us see whether India need blush at the comparison.

- Annie Besant

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

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

- Annie Besant

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