167 Quotes by Annie Besant

A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of a liberal, tolerant spirit in religious matters, are possible.

My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote some short stories of a very flimsy type, and also a work of a much more ambitious character, 'The Lives of the Black Letter Saints.'

Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of Earth the only forms in which intelligence could clothe itself.

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

It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.

Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.

That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.

The Buddha over and over again spoke clearly and definitely on post-mortem states - as in his conversation with Vasetta.

There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.