Annie Besant Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the faith which preaches monogamy. In AI Quran the law about woman is juster and more liberal.”

“The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.”

“I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the faith which preaches monogamy.”

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

“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.”

“The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the illumination of true knowledge, has resulted in a zeal without discretion that has vulgarised Christianity, and has presented its teachings in a form that often repels the heart and alienates the intellect.”

“Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.”

“To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.”

“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.”

“Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures.”