Annie Besant Quotes
A prominent Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator and supporter of Irish and Indian self rule.
(1847 - 1933)
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Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
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For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.
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Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.
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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 meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
[Courage]
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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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Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
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